Laura Silver is a native New Yorker and an award-winning journalist whose writing on food and culture has appeared in The New York Times, The Forward, the Jerusalem Report, and on NPR.
Laura teaches in the Food Studies Department at the New School for Public Engagement and has been a resident at the Banff Centre and the New York Public Library’s Wertheim Study. She has received fellowships from the Lilly Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the New York Times Company Foundation, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, among others. She has delivered talks at international venues including the American Museum of Natural History, the Krakow Jewish Festival and TEDx. In 2013, Laura was named the Barach Nonfiction Teaching Fellow at Wesleyan University’s Writers Conference.
Laura earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College (where she studied with Allen Ginsburg), a BA in French and Comparative Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has worked as an outreach worker to homeless people on the streets of New York, a United Nations tour guide and a sports correspondent at the Paralympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
She lives in Brooklyn and is considered the world’s leading expert on the knish.