Producer
Kelly Clarke

Editor in Chief
Kelly Clarke is editor in chief at Portland Monthly, where she manages the magazine’s insatiable Food & Drink section and creates lively cover packages that often double as guilty pleasures, from scouting out the city’s best bars or chronicling how to turn your backyard into a chic, gluttonous party paradise. She also pens stories on everything from mouthy ballerinas and bartenders to artisan junk food taste tests and Portland’s next crop of influential chefs.
In her former life, Kelly was the longtime Arts & Culture Editor at Willamette Week, where she founded the Portland alt-newsweekly’s popular Finder city guide, wrote about PDX’s excellent ethnic markets, chefs fighting over pigs, sex machines, and very expensive dog wheelchairs. Her Portland Monthly story about a wildly talented local chef channeling his hazardously addictive personality into cooking success won the SPJ’s 2013 Northwest Excellence in Journalism Competition for Personalities reporting. She lives, cooks, and eats with her husband and very opinionated daughter in Northeast Portland, where pho shops still outnumber Salt & Straw outposts.

The Little Joys of Summer
Here's What You Need Right Now to Party at a Distance

Best Places to Work
Why You Should Always Love Your Work Family

Party for a Cause
Celebrate Portland Monthly’s 2019 Light a Fire Award Winners in Person

Extraordinary Volunteer
This Volunteer Has Fostered 18 Guide Dogs for the Blind Just Since 2016

Best New Restaurants 2019: Trends
Seven Spots Expanding Portland’s Food Map

Best New Restaurants 2019
Best New Restaurants 2019

Best New Restaurants 2019
Portland Monthly’s Best New Restaurants 2019

Best New Restaurants 2019
2019’s Cart Standouts Were All About the Meat and Potatoes

Entertaining Guide
A Portland Pro on How to Throw the Party of Your Dreams

Entertaining Guide
25 Ways to Throw the Perfect Portland Party

Entertaining Guide
25 Ways to Throw the Perfect Portland Party

Entertaining Guide
12 More Awesome Ways to Party in Portland

Entertaining Guide
4 Super Sweet Local Dessert Experiences for Your Next Shindig

Entertaining Guide