I had the pleasure of photographing Annabelle Tometich, the award-winning journalist, food writer and restaurant critic. She spent 15 years pretending to be a white guy by writing restaurant reviews as Jean Le Boeuf for the USA TODAY Network. She recently shed the Frenchman pseudonym to review restaurants as her mixed-race self. She is at work on a memoir about her Filipina mother and biracial childhood in Robert E. Lee County, Florida, where she lives with her husband, two kids and two furry dog beasts. Find her on Twitter @atometich and Instagram @abellewrites. Sign up for her weekly newsletter The Half Filip.
Annabelle Tometich is an award-winning writer, editor and content creator based in Fort Myers, Florida. Her writing has been featured in USA TODAY, The News-Press, Naples Daily News, Florida Today, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, The Palm Beach Post, Greatist, teamusa.org and many more outlets. Her literary work is represented by Kayla Lightner at Ayesha Pande Literary.