Mayukh Sen

Mayukh Sen is the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He is a 2026 United States Artists Fellow and a 2025 New America Fellow. He teaches film and television reporting and criticism at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

In a previous professional life, he was also a James Beard Award-winning food writer and the author of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America (2021). His work has been anthologized in four editions of The Best American Food and Travel Writing anthologies. He received his BA from Stanford University in 2014 and lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.