Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin (“Hutch” to everyone except her mother) is a Charleston, South Carolina-based freelance writer and editor.

A former magazine editor, Hutch writes about travel, food & drink, arts & culture, and style. Her work has appeared in the pages of publications such as The New York Times, Men’s Journal, Southern Living, Coastal Living, The Local Palate, and Garden & Gun, where she worked as an editor for nearly nine years and continues to produce the award-winning Southern lifestyle magazine’s annual Made in the South Awards. She also contributed to G&G’s best-selling books: The Southerner’s Handbook, S is for Southern, and Southern Women.

After spending the last five years falling in love with her temporary Nashville home, Hutch is back in Charleston, where she can be found eating and drinking her way through the city and exploring area waterways along with her husband Tanner and their four-year-old golden retriever.