Candace Dempsey
is an award-winning Italian-American journalist whose blog, Italian Woman At The Table, has attracted worldwide attention. Hosted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, it's been featured on Newsweek.com and Martha Stewart Living Radio.
Candace covers true crime, travel and food, the topics talked about at the Italian-American tables where she grew up. Her adventure tales appear in such well-reviewed, popular anthologies as Travelers’ Tales A Woman’s Passion For Travel and Solo: On Her Own Adventure (Seal Press).
Candace has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Oregon School of Journalism, where she was a Graduate Teaching Fellow. She teaches food writing online at writers.com.
Candace is also the former editor/producer of MSN Underwire.com, a women's Web site that Newsweek called "cheeky, nicely written, fun" and The New York Times saluted for "serious sisterhood." She's written about travel, women's issues, food and business for numerous magazines and newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Phoenix, Puget Sound Business Journal, Art & Antiques, Passionfruit and Adventure Journal. Main illustration by Annette Kraus
The middle child in a multicolore
Italian-American family, Candace has three brothers and three sisters.
She lives in Seattle with her husband and son. She
likes to ski, kayak, mountain climb and hike. She is obsessed with all things Italian and often visits her Italian cousins in Calabria, far down in the boot of Italy. 
The best way to reach Candace is by email.