Kim Severson

Kim Marie Severson (born September 12, 1961) is a reporter for The New York Times. She won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 as part of The New York Times coverage of sexual harassment and abuse and is a four-time James Beard award–winner for food writing. Severson has published multiple cookbooks and a cooking themed memoir.

Severson wrote for the Anchorage Daily News 1991–1998 as a features writer. She wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle's food section from 1999 to 2004. She joined the New York Times in 2004. Severson covered sexual harassment in the restaurant industry for the New York Times; the paper received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage on sexual harassment.