Claudine Ko writes about food, popular culture and science. She's dined at Les Halles with culinary raconteur Anthony Bourdain, clinked whiskey-filled glasses with chef Masaharu Morimoto, and taken notes back-of-house at Le Bernardin from Eric Ripert. She's been journalistically embedded among surfer girls on the North Shore, Club Med workers in Turks & Caicos, funeral directors outside of Detroit, flight-attendant trainees in the U.K., Peace Corps in Peru, street racers in California, and competitive eaters in Chattanooga, TN. She wrote that American Apparel story during her tenure as a staff writer and editor for Jane magazine. She also worked at the PBS series Nova and can explain how to synthesize an anabolic steroid from a Mexican yam.

Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vice, New York, The Believer, Jane, Food Network Magazine, Bust, Nylon, Paper, The Village Voice, Giant Robot, Interview, Esquire (Romania), SuperScience and many others. She coauthored Kenneth Cole's Awearness: Inspiring Stories About How to Make a Difference (2008, Melcher Media/DK Publishing).

Claudine earned her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley (English Literature and Contemporary Chinese Culture), an M.A. from New York University (Cultural Reporting & Criticism), and has studied at the Institute of Culinary Education. She lives in NYC and California.