Mayukh Sen is the James Beard Award-winning author of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America (2021) and the forthcoming Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (March 4, 2025), both from W.W. Norton & Company.
He is a Class of 2025 Fellow at New America, where he has been named the inaugural Shourie Family Fellow to write his third book, provisionally titled Brown Hollywood. It will be an examination of the history of South Asian immigration to America from the early twentieth century to the present day, told through the stories of South Asian performers in Hollywood whose lives intersected with—and were informed by—changes in American immigration policy.
His work has been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Food and Travel Writing series. He received his BA from Stanford University in 2014. He teaches journalism at New York University and lives in Brooklyn.