Kara Newman

Kara Newman is the spirits editor for Wine Enthusiast magazine and writes about cocktails, spirits and bar culture for a number of other publications, including the Wall Street Journal, PUNCH, and Bloomberg Pursuits.

She is the author of several cocktail books, including COCKTAILS WITH A TWIST (August 2019), Nightcap: More Than 40 Cocktails To Close Out Any Evening (2018) and Shake.Stir.Sip.: 40 Effortless Cocktails Made in Equal Parts (2016), all from Chronicle Books. Her previous books also include Road Soda: Recipes and techniques for making great drinks anywhere (Dovetail Press, 2017) and The Secret Financial Life of Food (Columbia University Press, 2013).