Kasey Carpenter writes on the subject of wine for numerous outlets, a few pieces on cycling, and some ongoing fiction projects.
Wine:
Having spent a few years on the restaurant side of life, he wanted to make wine a career, and went to work at a wine shop in Dallas, tasting everything, meeting everyone and eventually moving up to wholesale, then as an independent broker. Along the way he pitched an interview out of the blue to Wine Spectator, and short piece about a hockey player (Mike Modano) who collects wine. The foot was in the door.
Since then he has written several piece for Wine Spectator ranging from Unfiltered pieces, to Q&A’s, and news articles. 360West, a Fort Worth lifestyle magazine prints his monthly wine picks, plus a few odds and ends that pertain to wine, be they good reads, upcoming events, building your cellar, what have you.
A weekly column on collecting and fraud (the two tend to go hand in hand these days) ran for almost two years at classicwines.com, a portal devoted to all things wine. Unfortunately, the website is up but not adding new content at the moment. Still some good reads in there!
Cycling:
A lifelong love, he never amounted to much as a racer, but still loves the sport and has dabbled in it with an interview with Jonathan Vaughters for Wine Spectator, and a couple of pieces for Pedal Pusher Online, one covering NAHBS 2009, another discussing the wines of Alsace as the 2009 Tour de France passed through Colmar.
Editing? Yes, Editing:
His first stint at editing has been a blast, having been asked to help with the selection process of nominees for Chuck Palahniuk’s Workshop Anthology project, where members of his writer’s workshop submit their short stories for consideration in the upcoming anthology, peer review, and line by line edits on an individual basis. While there are some odd pieces for sure, there are also some very moving and cleverly written submissions as well. One of the better, more serious, more active online writing workshops that imparts greater sums of information than most would receive from an MFA!
Fiction:
What writer doesn’t want to include fiction in their repertoire? From early drafts of Chuckshop submissions sprang some varied stories that are currently under development. “Object of Hostility” is the flavor of the month, in final edit, and soon to be unleashed. “For Every Hundred Todds”, “Supplication”, and “Logjam” are short stories that are beign sliced and diced and “Frankensteined” into novel-length works.
Poetry:
Eh. More therapeutic than anything, though understanding poetry is almost a requisite to engaging writing. Kasey probably won’t share any of his older works, no matter how many times he shouted them out at spoken word open mic nights across North Texas. The timing has to be right.
Besides writing, wine, bikes, and books – Kasey enjoys life with his wife and daughter, proving the Texas stereotype a non-blanket one, engaging in all forms of discussion, flying right.
