The Taste Of English Tea Blogging Team:

  • Cinnabar
    Cinnabar has been writing about tea for over two years. During the past several years she has also assembled a diverse and specific collection of teaware used for brewing and serving teas, ranging from aged Chinese pu’erh to Japanese Gyokuro to Turkish Çay and beyond. Cinnabar finds most interesting the methods and tools and particular tea types that define each culture’s relationship to tea. Cinnabar is the publisher of Gongfu Girl.
  • Stephanie Harkins
    Stephanie Harkins is a 30 year old freelance writer and tea connoisseur from Missouri whose passion for tea has spanned several decades. Her favorite teas are black, green and Pu-er although she’s “never met a tea she didn’t like”. Her other hobbies include building websites, graphic design, reading, knitting, crocheting and crafting. Stephanie is the publisher of The Tea Review Blog.
  • Bill J. Garcia
    Bill J. Garcia is currently a PhD candidate in Social Gerontology. One of Bill’s research interests are examining how tea can benefit and improve the quality of life of the elderly. He is also the blog author of one of only a handful blogs in the U.S. that exclusively discusses pu’erh tea. Bill is the publisher of Ancient Tea Horse Road.
  • Brittiny Lawson
    Brittiny is a college student majoring in Marketing with an associates degree in Electrical Engineering. Her love of tea came from an interest in Eastern cultures and an inability to resist collecting the dazzling tea ware.Brittiny is the publisher of My Steeped IdentiTEA.
  • William I Lengeman III
    According to William, if he had to select one tea to drink for the rest of his life he’d pretend he misunderstood the question and choose Assam and Sencha. He is the publisher of Tea Guy Speaks.
  • Lainie Petersen
    Lainie Petersen is a tea-drinker from Chicago who is extremely passionate about the leaf. She is also the Chicago Tea Examiner at Examiner.com. In addition to her tea-fascination, Lainie is a priest in the United States Independent Catholic Church, and enjoys cooking, reading, and taking very long walks. Lainie is the publisher of Lainie Sips.
  • A.C. Cargill
    A.C. Cargill is a tea aficionado with a degree in English and Philosophy and years spent in writing, graphics, and Website design. What better use for these than to write about tea? She enjoys what she calls the “tea life” where tea isn’t just a beverage – it’s a way of life – and invites you to join in the adventure. A.C. is also a member of the Association of Tea Bloggers. A.C. is the publisher of Tea Time with A.C. Cargill and Little Yellow Teapot Tea Reviews.
  • Jackie Gamber
    Jackie Gamber is an award-winning author of speculative fiction. She’s also co-founder and executive editor of award-winning Meadowhawk Press, a science fiction and fantasy indie publisher based in Memphis, TN. She’s a lover of tea and books, and relishes the opportunity to combine the two. She’s also a homeschooling mom of two teens, a flower gardener, and nature hugger. For more information on Jackie, visit her site, JackieGamber.com.
  • Madam Potts
    Madam Potts is a custom tea blender whose passion it is to design personalized blends of tea, based on and inspired by you. When she is not writing about the exotic world of the steeped leaf, she can be found frolicking about the Jersey shore, listening to classic jazz, and hosting underground tea parties . Madam Potts is the publisher of the Mad Pots of Tea! blog.
  • CurtissAnn Matlock
    Curtiss Ann Matlock is a writer and tea-drinking girl raised in the South. She is the author of over forty novels, including the tender and funny Valentine series. Her books have earned rave reviews, spots on the USA TODAY bestseller list and numerous awards. Her novels have all been written with the aid of pots of various types of black tea, with red tea lightly sweetened during late-night writing sessions. She subscribes heartily to the sentiment penned by writer A.W. Pinero: “Where there’s tea, there’s hope.” Born in North Carolina, she spent many years in Oklahoma and now lives with her family near Mobile, Alabama. You can find out more about her at CurtissAnnMatlock.com.
  • Stephanie Hanson
    Stephanie Hanson spends her days wrangling elementary schoolers and nights blogging, cooking, gardening, and embarking on various crafty endeavors. She has been writing her blog, The Tea Scoop, for three years. The Tea Scoop provides her with a great excuse to indulge her desires to try new and interesting teas, as well as her weakness for funky tea accessories. Her journey started with her first tea party at the age of 5. She has a hard time giving an answer when asked her favorite tea, but a good Assam never goes wrong and she has a fondness for spicy cinnamon teas and Earl Grey.
  • Fazia Rizvi

    • Fazia Rizvi blames her parents for her (tea) drinking problem. Therapy might help but she prefers to just blog about all the lovely, lovely tea accessories that she covets at All About Tea. A writer, traveler, scifi geek and anthropologist, she lives in the Texas Hill Country with her geek-of-all-trades husband, a cat named after a computer game and a cabinet full of more loose leaf tea than any sane person should have.

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