Meg Maker

@megmaker.com

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Writer and visual artist. Publisher of Maker’s Table. https://megmaker.com | https://makerstable.com

Three young children standing on the staircase, wearing pajamas, on Christmas day.
Deirdre Heekin holds a large bottle of wine. She is standing in a small tasting room and wearing an overcoat because it is cold.
Aligoté: abstract painting with blocks of beachy colors
Acrylic window-mounted bird feeder showing a Northern Cardinal and a Macau parrot.
Excerpt of the printed copy of the Wall Street Journal showing a recommendation for Maker's Table wine Substack.
Graphic sign with "CLOSING SALE" crossed through with a banner that says "NEW MARKDOWNS TAKEN." The cross-out obscures part of the word "closing," making it look like "CLOSTNO." A different font in this instance might have helped.
Drawing of a crown with a red X through it. Image is by Meg Maker.
Barrel stencils on a wall in the workshop of Cockburn's port lodge in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
large piles of compost and mulch on a tarp
World Food Photography Awards 2025 Finalist
Talking is one kind of voice. It’s literal voice, but it’s not literary voice. https://megmaker.substack.com/p/what-is-voice
Sangiovese grape cluster
Home page of NPR.org with Hands Off! rallies as lead story
Screenshot of NPR.org showing Hands Off protests as lead story
Barrel owl portrait
Landscape photo of vineyard and hills of Barolo
The god of wine with wine in his glass having a drink at a bar with the god of beer with a beer in his glass.
Meg Maker in the foreground, with Wink Lorch, Frank Morgan, and Janet Wang, standing in the tank room of London Cru, an urban winery.
Photo of Meg Maker next to a self portrait of Rembrandt.
Meg and Steve Maker in rain gear on a gray day
Piccadilly tube entrance with Christmas lights on the street
Large abstract canvas oil painting by Joan Mitchell
Steve Maker and Meg Maker at a cafe table with glasses of water and wine
Meg Maker and Steve Maker smiling into the camera while riding a London rail car.
Baked phyllo pastry on parchment on a baking tray.
Snowy scene with tall birches on a hill and a large horse barn in the distance.
A 5-gallon bucket full of just-harvested carrots sits on an oriental rug with a chair in the background.
Photograph of a night sky showing stars and a moon rising behind tall trees and a barn.
Chunks of fish breaded with panko and fried.
A portrait of Paula Sidore, left, and Meg Maker, right. They are outside with winter clothing on and the sunlight is lighting up their faces.
A huge cluster of blue-purple wine grapes on a vine. A man's hand is holding them to show the scale.
Bobcat looking at the viewer, on a lawn. There is a bench behind her.
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #135,282, Meg Maker ‪@megmaker.com‬, joined on Jun 19, 2023"
Illustration of a bright red male cardinal perched on a stick. There is a dark teal blue forest-like background.
Screenshot of the Meg Maker profile page at Saatchi Art showing a profile photo and thumbnails of fifteen abstract artworks.
Screenshot of a slide from a presentation. The slide shows a list of metaphors and analogies used in wine tasting notes.
Red raspberries in a silver colander, viewed from above.
Territorio Nov 3-4 Dartmouth College
Illustration of Mt. Etna, Sicily, with buildings and vineyards in the foreground.
Drawing of people standing next to a large letter A sculpture in the courtyard of Montefalco, Italy.
Photograph of a young Eastern phoebe perched on a wire fence. It has its bill open.
Author standing in her garden pointing up to pink and white cosmos that towers over her.
Photograph of two American goldfinches, one male and one female, eating seeds from pink coneflowers.