Ligaya Mishan

Ligaya Mishan writes for the New York Times and T magazine. Her essays have been selected for the Best American Magazine Writing and the Best American Food Writing, and her criticism has appeared in the New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. This year she was a finalist for a National Magazine Award and a James Beard Journalism Award. The daughter of a Filipino mother and a British father, she grew up in Honolulu, Hawai’i.