Jaya Saxena

Bio

Jaya Saxena is an award winning writer and editor based in New York. She is one of the founding worker-owners of Ravenous, a food and culture site. She has spent over 15 years working in media, reporting on and analyzing America’s food culture. At Eater, she wrote about Margaritaville and leisure time, investigated what went wrong with Smartfood popcorn, and went deep on the food that makes you gay. She contributed a chapter to the Eater Guide to New York City on how to spend the perfect 24 hours in her hometown, and was the editorial lead for Eater’s Queer Table coverage. She enjoys covering the intersections of food and immigration, business, history, policy, queerness, and just about every way we use food to say something about ourselves.