Douglas Trattner

Douglas Trattner is a Cleveland writer, editor and author who has worked as a full-time freelancer for two decades, covering food, beverage, travel and culture. He is the longtime dining editor of Cleveland Scene, a role that earned him the national AltWeekly Award for Best Food Writing, and his work has appeared in Food Network Magazine, Tasting Table, Eater, Thrillist, the Miami Herald, The Globe and Mail, Wine & Spirits and The Plain Dealer.

He has worked with chef Michael Symon on eight cookbooks, among them Carnivore, 5 in 5 and Fix It with Food, earning four New York Times best-seller honors. He also wrote Moon Handbooks: Cleveland, the only exhaustive travel guidebook to his beloved hometown, and works as a ghostwriter.