Alexandra Forbes is a food and travel writer based in Montreal who is best known in her native Brazil for her widely-read food and travel blog Boa Vida. She is the food editor at GQ Brasil and regularly contributes to Brazilian magazines such as Vogue, Marie Claire, Prazeres da Mesa and Wish Report (Brazil’s premier luxury and lifestyle magazine). Her Gourmet column appears twice monthly in Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil’s largest daily.

In Canada Alexandra has written for Air Canada's inflight En Route, wine magazine Tidings, Azure and the Toronto Star. She also contributes to Lan's inflight In, Food & Wine, and several custom publishing magazines. Online, her posts appear on various blogs, including Montreal for Insiders, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants and The Montreal Buzz.