Shoba Narayan is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She covers finance, technology, food and culture and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Gourmet, New Age, House Beautiful, New Woman, Swing, Institutional Investor, Internet World, React, and Little India, among other publications.

Her essays and commentaries have appeared on National Public Radio's All Things Considered Weekend.

Shoba is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke College and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, which awarded her a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship as one of the top students in her graduating class.

She lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.