Melody Fuller is a wine, food, and travel writer. Melody writes about high end food, wine, and travel and was published on a James Beard Award winning site. She has also enjoyed being published in Australia, Griffith Review. Melody was a columnist for The SOMM Journal focusing on diversity, social and racial justice in high end wine. Melody hopes to share her worldwide experiences in the food and wine industry through a book that is under construction titled, The Table. This book takes the reader through over thirty years of fine wining and dining at home and abroad. Melody piloted a winemaker focused TV show and she is the founder of the Oakland Wine Festival and the Oakland Wine Society. Melody was invited to and attended The Professional Wine Writer’s Symposium at Meadowood Napa in 2014 and in 2015. Melody is also a VONA Alum. She holds a Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, University of Southern Maine; a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science from Mills College.
Four Black women migrate from four different southern states in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where they all settle in the Oakland area. They meet and for…
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