Shelley Sackier is Reservoir Distillery’s Director of Distillery Education and author of Make it a Double—From Wretched to Wonderous: Tales of one Woman’s Lifelong Discovery of Whisky. She has spent 25 years in the spirits industry, educating, researching, and publishing extensively on the subject of whiskey. Additionally, Shelley is managing and developing the Virginia Heritage Grain Project, tasked with studying the use of the nation's oldest grains in the spirits industry, and funded through the Virginia Spirits Board Research and Education Grant Program.

Writer of Memoir, Middle Grade and Young Adult contemporary, historical, and humorous fiction. Published by Sourcebooks, HarperCollins, and Pegasus Books.

Winner of many useless solid gold plastic trophies for effort and participation. I currently write middle grade and YA fiction (Dear Opl - Sourcebooks 2015, The Freemason's Daughter - HarperCollins 2017, and The Antidote - HarperTEEN 2019) and hope to bind them all together with my latest project: a large series of essays that wax lyrically about the scandalous beauty of making whisky.I also work with the illustrious illustrator Robin Gott (Robingott.com) at ShelleySackier.com, providing him with a few opportunities to take a crack at fully fleshing out my life with charcoal and colored markers. Everyone agrees I look much better as a sketched cartoon.You can find me on BookBub, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest for all things book related, a fair amount about NASA, and, of course, whisky.