Casey Clark
Casey Clark is a freelance journalist and copywriter who covers food and lifestyle, with a focus on product-driven stories that connect everyday purchases to moments of care and celebration. Her food coverage at SheKnows sits alongside work on beauty, style, mental health, and commerce for other outlets, giving her a broad view of how people shop, eat, and look after themselves. Across platforms, she writes service pieces that highlight specific items, price points, and occasions, making it easy for readers to act on her recommendations.
Food gifts and budget-friendly treats
At SheKnows, Clark’s food coverage leans into accessible indulgence and gifting, using food as a way to mark milestones and show appreciation.
In her Father’s Day story on sweet treats under $15, she frames desserts as last-minute gifts, tying flavor, format, and cost directly to the practical realities of finding something thoughtful on a deadline. She uses clear price thresholds and a curated set of options so readers can scan quickly and buy with confidence, a format that suits occasion-based food shopping and holiday coverage. Her emphasis on treats that are both special and affordable reflects a wider interest in helping readers upgrade everyday moments without overspending.
Beauty, style, and mental health commerce
Beyond food, Clark covers beauty, style, mental health, and commerce, giving her lifestyle work a strong shopping and self-care spine.
Her commerce beat means she writes about products and services with the explicit goal of helping readers decide what to buy, drawing on the same skills she uses in food roundups - clear criteria, direct language, and a focus on value. The inclusion of mental health in her portfolio signals that she treats wellness as part of the same consumer landscape, covering items and routines that support emotional as well as physical presentation. Her work has been featured in People, placing her recommendations and service journalism in front of a broad, mainstream audience.
Freelance lifestyle writing across outlets
Clark works as a freelance journalist and copywriter, publishing across multiple lifestyle and consumer outlets. She is described as a writer and blogger with bylines at Spoon University, Allure, Women’s Health, Byrdie, and Hair.com, a mix of platforms that collectively cover food, beauty, wellness, and haircare. That spread shows she is comfortable tailoring service content to different niches - college and everyday cooking, prestige beauty, health-focused lifestyle, and expert hair advice - while keeping a consistent emphasis on practical takeaways. Her ability to move between food gifts, beauty products, and wellness topics makes her well suited to stories that sit at the intersection of consumption and care, where a recommendation needs to feel both trustworthy and usable.
Across all of these outlets, she brings an accessible tone and a product-forward approach, concentrating on concrete choices rather than abstract trends.
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Aaron Guerrero
Aaron Guerrero is head of the digital department at Miami’s Community Newspapers, where he pairs restaurant coverage with community-facing content. He focuses on how Miami-area restaurants evolve, celebrate, and experiment through new concepts, menus, and neighborhood-focused dining experiences. He reports on restaurant openings, such as an Italian food hall at Plaza Coral Gables, new executive lunch menus, and wood-fired Latin steakhouse brunches, explaining what sets each venue apart. He also covers awards, like a Wine Spectator honor for an Italian chophouse, and events that turn dining rooms into social hubs. His bylines extend to features on sports-themed gatherings, civic renamings, local visits to restaurant programs, sponsored community pieces, and official notices. His work is straightforward and descriptive, helping readers and local businesses connect around specific openings, promotions, and dining experiences.
Aarron Fleming
Aarron Fleming reports on how courts, jails and public safety systems work over time. He is a reporter at The Daily Memphian covering public safety, the local court system, suburban news and business developments in North Mississippi. His work follows trials, sentencing, appeals, plea deals and judicial decisions, including major cases tied to Tyre Nichols and rapper Young Dolph. He also covers jail conditions, inmate deaths, crime data, prosecution units, trafficking, shootings and public-order incidents. His suburban reporting examines cannabis businesses, restaurant openings and how commercial growth affects communities such as Olive Branch. Fleming previously covered education in the same newsroom. He uses clear, unadorned prose to explain legal steps, deadlines, institutional problems and the political, commercial and community effects of public-safety decisions.
Alana Al-Hatlani
Alana Al-Hatlani is a food writer and editor who treats recipes, restaurants, and food features as ways to explore culture, community, and the business of eating. She works on the food team at Southern Living, overseeing and contributing to print recipes and reported features. Her pastry-focused, restaurant-tested perspective comes from time in restaurant and bakery kitchens. She helps plan and write monthly food packages, including “The South’s Most Treasured Desserts,” and wrote “8 Summer Recipes Our Editors Make Every Year.” She also writes recipe tips, ingredient explainers, restaurant guides, and reported stories about workers, owners, and communities. Her subjects include regional specialties, dining scenes, kitchen basics, and food industries. Her work has appeared with OpenTable and Yahoo. She reports on the ground, explains techniques clearly, and connects specific dishes and places to larger stories about food and livelihood.
Alana Edgin
Alana Edgin is a business reporter whose strongest focus is food, restaurants and consumer-facing businesses. She works at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and has also had work syndicated across AOL and Yahoo News. She covers new openings, closings, expansions and franchise growth, along with retail, health, services, corporate news, data incidents, business support programs and sponsorships. Her reporting includes detailed roundups of new restaurants and businesses, coverage of El Pollo Loco’s opening, and stories on burger trucks, dessert shops, Vietnamese sandwich restaurants and gourmet markets. She also contributes to food and drink reviews, including fall coffee and jerky comparisons. Edgin reports with practical “what, when, where” details, structured comparisons and clear explanations of how offers, partnerships and business changes affect consumers and the local economy.