About

Ann Mah is a freelance journalist whose articles about food, travel, fashion, style and the arts have appeared in Conde Nast Traveler, the International Herald Tribune, Washingtonian magazine, the South China Morning Post, the Insider’s Guide to Beijing, and many other publications.

After graduating from UCLA in 1997, Ann began her career in book publishing, eventually becoming an assistant editor at Viking Penguin in New York. From 2003-2007 she lived in Beijing, where she was a staff writer and dining editor for That’s Beijing, an English-language entertainment magazine. In 2005, she was awarded a James Beard culinary scholarship to study Italian cuisine in Bologna, Italy. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.