Susan H. Gordon has been writing about wine for several years, with certifications and studies at the highest levels of the Wine and Spirit Education Trust and as an Italian Wine Ambassador of Italy's international wine trade Vinitaly program. In 2022 she earned her PhD with her studies on the history, cultures, and technologies of the two Prosecco Superiore zones. The MFA in fiction she earned from The New School has been the basis of her ongoing writing experimentation and worries about language, as she thinks and reads in both Italian and American English and writes in the latter while working to resist its attempts to overtake the former. As a writer concerned with both wine and how words shape and unshape worldviews and abilities to see and know, she is well placed to write her way through the story of Italian land, nation, and technology that is Prosecco Superiore. In May 2020, her wine and language-concerned "What a Little Hilltop in Abruzzo Can Tell Us About Words for Place" was published in Gastronomica (University of California Press). She is a regular contributor to Forbes' online platform where she writes about Italian wine. Since 2018 she has also covered the wines of the eastern United States for Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book (Mitchell Beazley).