Shoba Narayan

Shoba Narayan is a bilingual Indian-American poet who writes in Tamil and English. Her poems are published or forthcoming from a few literary journals including La Piccioletta Barca, Mukoli: the magazine of peace, The Stillwater Review, The Mantelpiece, Indian Literature, The Seraphic Review, Rogue Agent, Humans of the World (third place winner of their Summer Poetry Contest 2023), Lucky Jefferson (poetry contest finalist) and others. She is the author of six books, which are about immigrant identity, food and multi-generational families. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Condenast Traveler, Gourmet, The Guardian, Financial Times, and The National among others. She won the James Beard MFK Fisher award for distinguished food writing, and a Pulitzer Fellowship from Columbia University.