Photo by Samantha Mellina
Contact Mayukh Sen
Personal: mayukh.kumar.sen@gmail.com
Professional: mayukh.sen@nyu.edu
North America Publicity: Elizabeth Riley (eriley@wwnorton.com)
International Publicity: Olly Wearing (owearing@wwnorton.com)
Film/TV rights and speaking inquiries: William Callahan (william@inkwellmanagement.com)
Mayukh Sen is an author, professor, and journalist in New York whose work primarily focuses on film. He is most recently the author of Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star (2025, Norton), a finalist for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. He is a 2026 United States Artists Fellow, and he was a recipient of a New America Fellowship (Class of 2025) for his ongoing work documenting the history of South Asians in Hollywood. He currently 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, Norton). 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.