In 2012, Chambers received the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook for her work on, Yes, Chef which she co-authored with Marcus Samuelsson. Time Magazine named it one of the top 10 non-fiction books of 2017.

In 2017, Chambers edited The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on Our Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own. Chambers’s other memoir collaborations include Wake Up Happy with morning TV host and NFL Hall of Famer Michael Strahan and Emperor of Sound with multi-platinum producer Timbaland. In May 2016, Random House published 32 Yolks, the memoir Chambers co-authored with chef Eric Ripert.

In 2014, Chambers co-wrote the New York Times bestseller Everybody’s Got Something with journalist, Robin Roberts. In 2012, New York Times' Dwight Garner said Yes Chef was “one of the great culinary stories of our time.” President Bill Clinton said, “In this memoir, Marcus Samuelsson tells a story that reaches past racial and national divides to the foundation of family, hope and downright good food.” In 2015, Chambers and Samuelsson published a young adult version of Yes, Chef, called Make it Messy, which Barnes & Noble named one of its best teen books of the year. Chambers has also been a Lecturer for the Young Women's Writing Program at Smith College and for the Environmental Communication Program at Stanford University. Knight Journalism Fellowship, the National Endowment of the Arts, the British-American Project in Newcastle upon Tyne England, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Camargo Foundation, in Cassis, France, and Princeton University's Hodder Fellowship. She has been a fellow at Columbia University's Freedom Forum, the Japan Society Media Fellows Program in New York and Tokyo, Stanford University's John S. Career Ĭhambers taught writing at Stanford University, Bowdoin College, Bard College at Simon's Rock, and the Rutgers University Summer Program. Chambers attended Simon's Rock College of Bard, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where she received a B.A. Early life Ĭhambers was born in Panama and raised in Brooklyn. Chambers has been an editor and writer for New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Glamour, Good Housekeeping, Premiere, Esquire, Parade and O, The Oprah Magazine. Veronica Chambers is an Afro-Latina author, teacher, and magazine executive. 2013 James Beard Award for Writing and Literature

Make It Messy by Marcus Samuelsson