About
Joel Randolph Finsel is an American writer, teacher, and co-founder of Third Person Project, a non-profit research group based in Wilmington, North Carolina, dedicated to generating and sponsoring creative documentary projects.
Finsel's books include Cocktails & Conversations, a memoir about tending bar during the craft-cocktail renaissance, and Franz Kline in Coal Country, a biography of the abstract-expressionist's early years. Finsel's articles and recipes have appeared in Cosmopolitan, The Oxford American, Playboy.com, Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere.
