Heather writes for publications such as Australian Vogue, Marie Claire, Alta, Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Playboy, C California Style, FLOOD, Better Homes & Gardens, The Hollywood Reporter, and Bon Appétit, where she was wine and spirits editor and columnist from 2004 to 2011.
Prior to joining Bon Appétit, she was senior style editor at the Los Angeles Times Magazine, overseeing fashion and beauty, home and garden design, and food and wine coverage. As an editor, she has collaborated with Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and New York Times bestselling authors. Heather has been a judge at numerous wine and chef competitions, served as a judge for the James Beard Restaurant Awards and IACP Food Writing Awards, and appears on TV and radio, ranging from Hell's Kitchen to NPR's Morning Edition. She was a contributing editor at C Magazine and launch editor for the Elizabeth Street iPad apps, a series of international city guides, which received press in Vogue, Vanity Fair, WWD and the Los Angeles Times.
Heather grew up in the Napa Valley and worked at local wineries after graduating from UC Davis. She has also lived in Oxford, England, and Paris, France, where she studied at the Sorbonne. She has an MFA in Writing from Otis College of Art and Design, where she was the recipient of a President’s Fellowship, and is an alumna of the Tin House Writers Workshop. Heather is a contributing essayist to the anthology Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion’s Light (Rare Bird, 2020) and California Dream State (Rizzoli, 2025). The winner of a Los Angeles Press Club National Arts and Entertainment Award for her yearlong series “United We Read” for the L.A. Times, Heather currently teaches journalism and writing at USC Annenberg. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.
Contact: heatherjohnfogarty@gmail.com
Literary Representation: Danielle Svetcov, Levine Greenberg Rostan, dsvetcov@lgrliterary.com
