I've been traveling since I was five, and writing about those travels for many years. After retiring from a successful healthcare career, I now focus my writing and work on travel, food, and wine. My travel blog can be found at www.travelsandescapes.net where I offer practical tips, suggestions, and trends as well as showcasing travels. I am a member of International Food Wine Travel Writer Association, ifwtwa.org, travemedia, and travel massive.

As co-founder of www.forkscorksandbrews.com, find the latest recipes and photos. An accomplished cook, recipe developer, and cookbook author, I also offer wine suggestions to pair with those recipes and review kitchen products and gadgets.

I write regularly for WE Magazine as a food, wine, and travel editor, www.wemagazineforwomen.com. In addition, I contribute to a variety of other publications with travel and wine articles.

I am a published author of children’s books, the Max and Myron series and of several mysteries. Currently I live in southern California with my husband, who travels and enjoys wine with me and tastes tests the recipes, and my office cat, who makes sure his bowl is full.

Contact me at wvanhatten@gmail.com for more information.

With my travel website and blog, I offer tips and ideas, share photos and trips, and review travel related products and sites. As an editor, I work with authors and travel writers. In addition I am editor-in-chief for a regional magazine and a travel writer for a variety of magazines.