Nancy Matsumoto is a writer and editor who specializes in the areas of sake, regenerative agriculture, food, and culture. She is the co-author of the James Beard award-winning Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake: Rice Water Earth (Tuttle Publishing, 2022), and has been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, TheAtlantic.com, Food & Wine, Saveur, The Los Angeles Times, NPR and The Toronto Globe and Mail, among other publications. The former critic for Air Canada enRoute’s “Canada’s Best New Restaurants,” she is the holder of three sake certifications. In addition to editing the forthcoming book, By the Shore of Lake Michigan (UCLA Asian American Studies Press), an English-language translation of Japanese tanka poetry, she is now working on a book about women at the forefront of food system change.