Matthew B. Rowley

Matthew Rowley is one of America's foremost experts in extra-legal and folk distilling. The former museum curator is the author of the historical/how-to distilling manual Moonshine! (Lark Books, 2007) and contributor to several edited volumes on drinks. Both he and his writing have been featured in:

* The New York Times

* The Los Angeles Times

* The San Francisco Chronicle

* The New Orleans Times-Picayune

* The Washington Post

* Wine & Spirits

* Imbibe Magazine

* National Public Radio

* Salon.com

* Ministryofrum.com

Rowley is a former board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance, a past presenter at Tales of the Cocktail, and has spoken on drinking and cocktail culture for universities, radio, and television. His recipes and essays have been published by the University of North Carolina Press, Simon & Schuster, the Taunton Press, and others.

As a freelance writer, his spirits and cocktail clients include The American Distilling Institute, The Cocktail & Spirits Online Writers Group, Léirithe le Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Museum of the American Cocktail. Additional clients may be found at www.matthew-rowley.com.

He maintains Rowley's Whiskey Forge (www.whiskeyforge.com), a website devoted to food and drink, widely read by cocktail enthusiasts and food aficionados.