Journalist & Freelance Writer

Christina Cooke is a North Carolina-based writer who covers people, place, culture, food and agriculture systems, and issues of social and environmental justice.

 

About

Christina Cooke is associate editor at the food policy site Civil Eats and a freelance writer who covers people, place, culture, food and agriculture systems, and issues of social and environmental justice for magazines and newspapers. She was awarded a James Beard Media Award for investigative journalism in 2023. Her piece, “Black Earth,” was nominated for a 2025 James Beard Award and selected by celebrated chef and author Bryant Terry to appear in the forthcoming edition of Best American Food and Travel Writing.

Writings

Christina’s work has been published in The New YorkerThe New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, Oxford American, The Guardian,  Civil Eats, The Bitter Southerner, High Country NewsWillamette Week, and Our State magazine, among other places.