Nina Mukerjee Furstenau is a journalist and author with a special interest in food and identity. She won the 2014 M. F. K. Fisher Book Award for her food memoir, Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America’s Heartland, as well as the Les Dames d’Escoffier International Grand Prize for culinary literature.

She has also written Tasty! Mozambique, Savor Missouri: River Hills Country Food & Wine, and been published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Feast, Sauce, Ploughshares, Painted Bride Quarterly, and the anthology Pie & Whiskey. 

She retired from the University of Missouri Science and Agricultural Journalism programme where she was the director of food systems communication. She is currently the editor of the FoodStory book series for the University of Iowa Press.