Karen Yuan

Karen is the culture editor at Bon Appétit, where she covers lifestyle, entertainment, internet culture, and more. She edits BA's viral food diary series The Receipt, conceives of and oversees editorial projects that celebrate junk food and rethink dinner parties, and writes about chili crisp and Chinese pickles. Previously, she worked as an editor at Fortune, where she won a Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Best in Business Award for her coverage of the challenges facing Chinese restaurants in the pandemic. Before that, she was an editor at The Atlantic. Before that, she worked a stint at a tiny dairy farm in Bavaria. She lives in New York, where she graduated from Columbia with a creative writing degree. She sometimes tries to make use of it by writing short stories.