About
Margaret Eby is a journalist and critic who writes about books, movies, music, television, and various cultural ephemera. She is currently Deputy Food editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Previously, she was editorial lead at Food52, a senior editor at Food & Wine, and the senior culture editor at MyRecipes & Extra Crispy., the features and essays editor at HelloGiggles, associate editor at Brooklyn Magazine and The L Magazine, and an online books editor and entertainment reporter for The New York Daily News.
Her first book, Rock and Roll Baby Names, was published by Gotham Books in April 2012. Her second book, South Toward Home: Travels In Southern Literature, was published by Norton in September 2015, and reviewed by The New York Times, The Oxford American, and Entertainment Weekly, among other places.
She has written for The New York Review of Books, Rolling Stone, The BBC, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, The New Republic, Vox, Atlas Obscura, Mental Floss, Al-Jazeera America, Salon, Slate, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, Men's Journal, The AV Club, The Next American City, Print Magazine, Flavorwire, The Paris Review Daily, The Forward, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications.
Margaret graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in Urban Studies and English, and completed an M.A. in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU. She also completed a certificate program at the International Culinary Center in 2019. She grew up in Alabama, but now lives in Philly. You can follow her on twitter or contact her at margareteby [at] gmail [dot] com.
Her first book, Rock and Roll Baby Names, was published by Gotham Books in April 2012. Her second book, South Toward Home: Travels In Southern Literature, was published by Norton in September 2015, and reviewed by The New York Times, The Oxford American, and Entertainment Weekly, among other places.
She has written for The New York Review of Books, Rolling Stone, The BBC, Vanity Fair, Bon Appetit, The New Republic, Vox, Atlas Obscura, Mental Floss, Al-Jazeera America, Salon, Slate, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Interview Magazine, The New York Times, Men's Journal, The AV Club, The Next American City, Print Magazine, Flavorwire, The Paris Review Daily, The Forward, and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications.
Margaret graduated from Barnard College with a B.A. in Urban Studies and English, and completed an M.A. in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU. She also completed a certificate program at the International Culinary Center in 2019. She grew up in Alabama, but now lives in Philly. You can follow her on twitter or contact her at margareteby [at] gmail [dot] com.
