Lauren Saria is the food editor at the Arizona Republic. She moved to Phoenix to attend the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at ASU and graduated with Bachelor of Journalism and Master of Mass Communication degrees. She went on to become a food writer and later food editor at the Phoenix New Times, and in 2014 she won Best Newspaper Food Feature from the Association of Food Journalists. In her free time you can find her running, hiking with her dog, or practicing yoga.