Osayi Endolyn is a James Beard award-winning writer and editor whose work reflects on food, culture and identity. Her writing appears in Time, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, Eater, Food & Wine and the Oxford American. Her essay contributions to the books YOU AND I EAT THE SAME (Artisan), WOMEN ON FOOD (Abrams) and RAGE BAKING (Simon & Schuster) are widely acclaimed. Osayi has been featured on Chef’s Table on Netflix, the Sporkful podcast, Special Sauce with Ed Levine, NPR’s 1A, and The Splendid Table with Francis Lam. During her tenure as deputy editor of Gravy, Southern Living Magazine named her to their list of 30 Women Moving Southern Food Forward. In 2018, Osayi received the James Beard Award for column writing in a series that reflected on race and gender in the dining space. In 2019 she guest edited Eater’s inaugural Young Gun section dedicated to upcoming restaurant talent. She was awarded the UC Berkeley 11th Hour Food and Farming Journalism Fellowship that same year. Osayi serves on the board of trustees for the Edna Lewis Foundation. She’s based in Brooklyn.