Liza Zimmerman is the editor-in-Chief of Cheers magazine. She is also the principal of the San Francisco-based Liza the Wine Chick wine and spirits consulting firm. Liza Zimmerman has been writing, educating and consulting about wine, cocktails and food for more than 15 years. She has published hundreds of stories in the U.S. and abroad in such magazines such as Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast, Wine Business Monthly, Wine & Spirits and The Magazine of La Cucina Italiana.

Zimmerman spent seven years in the New York offices of M. Shanken Communications, where she was promoted to managing editor of Market Watch. She has visited all the world’s major wine growing and spirits producing regions and is one of less than 100 people in the U.S. to hold the Diploma of Wine & Spirits (D.W.S.), the three-year program that is the precursor to the Master of Wine.

Zimmerman graduated from Northwestern University and the University of Florence with a double Bachelor’s degree in American History and Italian Language and Literature.