ABOUT BIANCA

Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist and the author of GET THE PICTURE: A Mind-Bending Journey among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (out Feb 6, 2024 from Viking). She is also the New York Times bestselling author of CORK DORK, which has been praised as the "KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL of wine." 

In addition to serving as a contributing writer at The Atlantic, Bosker has written for publications such as The New Yorker , The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Food & Wine, The Guardian, and The New Republic. Her writing has been anthologized in the Best American Travel Writing and recognized with awards from the International Association of Culinary Professionals, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Association of Food Journalists, and the MFK Fisher Awards, as well as shortlisted for The Gerald Loeb Awards, the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, the Deadline Club Awards, among others.

She previously wrote ORIGINAL COPIES, the first definitive account of China’s “duplitecture” movement. Described as “fascinating” by the New York Review of Books, ORIGINAL COPIES (University of Hawaii Press/Hong Kong University Press, 2013) continues to be featured in leading publications and was selected as a Book of the Year Award finalist by Foreword Reviews, in addition to being named one of Gizmodo's Best Books of the Year.

She grew up in Portland, Oregon, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University, and currently lives in New York City. Her lesser-known exploits include training alongside butlers in Chengdu, obsessively collecting graphic novels, and pairing wines with takeout (see #pairdevil).