Dr. Cynthia Greenlee is a historian and award-winning writer based in North Carolina. She has won a coveted James Beard Foundation Award, the nation's highest honor in food writing.
Her journalistic work has appeared in The Atlantic, Essence, The Nation, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and Vox, among other publications. She was also lead editor of The Echoing Ida Collection, an anthology of Black women and people writing about reproductive justice.
At MacDowell, she worked on a series of essays about expanding the definition of "soul food."
