Nancy Matsumoto is an award-winning freelance writer and editor who writes about agroecology, food sovereignty, food, drink, and Japanese American culture and history.

 Her latest book, Reaping What She Sows: How Women Are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System (Melville House Publishing, 2025), tells the stories of women changemakers who are forging shorter, more direct, and more transparent "alternative" food supply chains compared to the long, extractive, and exploitative chains controlled by Big Food and Big Agriculture.

 A third-generation Japanese American and holder of three sake certifications, she is the co-author of the James Beard award-winning Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake (Tuttle Publishing, 2022). Her book, By the Shore of Lake Michigan (UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press, 2024), a translation of a volume of Japanese tanka poetry published in 1960 by her grandparents Tomiko and Ryokuyō Matsumoto, was awarded an American Book Award in 2025.

Nancy’s Substack publication “Reaping” continues to tell stories of the people, institutions, and businesses leading ecosystems regeneration. As a journalist, she has been a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, TheAtlantic.com, People, Food & Wine, Saveur, The Los Angeles Times, Civil Eats, NPR, The Toronto Globe and Mail, and Air Canada enRoute Magazine, among other publications. From 2018 through 2022, she was the critic for Air Canada enRoute magazine’s “Canada’s Best New Restaurants” feature.

 Other books that Nancy has contributed to include Unforgotten Voices From Heart Mountain: An Oral History of the Incarceration, Displaced: Manzanar 1942-1945, and The Race. Her book The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders: Supporting Self-Esteem, Healthy Eating & Positive Body Image at Home, co-written with Dr. Marcia Herrin, is the winner of a National Parenting Publication award.