About
Madhushree Ghosh is the author of the award-winning culinary narrative memoir, Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family. Madhushree’s next culinary narrative, Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West explores Punjabi migration to the American West transforming food, travel, prayer and community (Bloomsbury, June 11, 2026).
Madhushree’s Pushcart-nominated work on food, social justice, and immigration has been published in the Best American Essays in Food Writing, The New York Times, Vogue India, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets and Writers, LA Times and others.
Madhushree runs the popular global literary salon & supper club, KhabaarCo emphasizing activism, immigration, social justice and community in San Diego, New York, New Delhi and Oaxaca. Her TEDx San Diego talk What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Food highlights San Diego’s East African refugee women farmers of City Heights. Find her @writemadhushree
Photography by Gary S Greer Photography
Books
Highlights:
- Award-winning author of debut food narrative memoir, KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Familywas published by the University of Iowa Press (@uiowapress) 2022
- Invited speaker to major food festivals, discourses on food as a social justice tool, on domestic partner violence issues as well as immigrant women of color in science and in food conversations
- Pushcart-nominated and (Notable Mention) Best American Essays in Food Writing ; essays published in The New York Times, Vogue India, Washington Post, LA Times, The Writer, Longreads, Catapult, BOMB, Guernica, LA Review of Books, LitHub and others
- Madhushree works in oncology diagnostics
- Past details on events and speaking engagements are listed here.
Literary Representation
Dana Newman Literary Agency
1900 Avenue of the Stars, 19th Floor
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County 90067, USA