Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner is a writer, editor, reader, recipe developer and nice person living in New York City.
She currently covers all aspects of food, dining, travel and lifestyle trends and the intersection of culture, business and politics in these areas. Melissa has written about everything from the way that food commercials have paved the way for LGBTQ representation in advertising, to the importance of sustainability in everyday home cooking to the evolution of New York City's oldest drag queen restaurant. She’s extensively covered the disappearance of lesbian bars and is old enough to now write about their exciting resurgence and revival.
Melissa is passionate about LGBTQ issues, protecting our food systems and amplifying marginalized voices. Her reporting has taken her to the top of an active volcano in Guatemala during a thunderstorm, the vineyards of Champagne for the grape harvest, two(!!) frozen lakes on Alaska's Iditarod trail, the Bronx at the crack of dawn, and many more inspiring destinations around the world.
You can read Melissa’s print and online work in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Marie Claire, Bon Appetit, New York Magazine, Eater, Vulture, WSJ Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Brides, Food & Wine, Glamour, USA Today, Teen Vogue, Departures, Edible, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living VICE, Thrillist, Refinery29, PureWow, Mic, Forbes, INSIDER, Alma , Bustle and many more publications.
In addition to her freelance work, Melissa works as a regular contributor to Time Out New York and a Metro reporter for The New York Times. For the duration of 2021, she ran hyper local site Greenpointers as the managing editor.
An avid signer of NDAs, Melissa has copywritten and ghostwritten for several clients she can't tell you about, but you probably use their websites and watch reruns of their shows everyday. She also works as a sensitivity reader for to-be-published novels.
Melissa is also working on a novel about (surprise!) women in New York. She’s represented by Kristy Hunter at The Knight Agency, who can be reached at kristy.hunter@knightagency.net.
Follow Melissa on Instagram or email her at melissabethkravitz@gmail.com.