About Brad Thomas Parsons
About LAST CALL
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I hail from Central New York (I lived in Canastota and Oneida, located between Utica and Syracuse) and have lived in Brooklyn, New York, since 2010. I went to college at SUNY-Oswego on the banks of Lake Ontario and received an MFA in writing from Columbia University. My dreams of becoming a young novelist were met with the reality of working in a bookstore before moving to Seattle where I became a senior editor on the books team at Amazon for over a decade, where I ran point on the cooking, food, and wine category. I moved back to New York in 2010 and worked as an executive marketing director for two different publishers (with a focus on cooking and lifestyle) before going freelance full-time in 2017.
I’ve been writing about drinks, spirits, and bar culture since 2008 and my work has appeared in publications including Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure, Lucky Peach, Whisky Advocate, Imbibe, PUNCH, TASTE, and VinePair among others.