Oliver Guy is an award-winning writer and journalist. A born and bred Londoner; city life has infused every aspect of his career. On graduating from the Sorbonne and The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, he pursued a career in political journalism. Joining The Times’ news desk where he covered elections and war before moving to Time Out magazine where he reported for the news pages and reviewed for their food and travel guides. Oliver left Time Out to move into the food world proper; earning his spurs at the legendary Rochelle Canteen and learning to become a classically-trained butcher before setting up Flora & Fauna - a celebrated food photography studio in East London. 

Ever since, Oliver has combined writing roles in the television industry, mostly notably with Omnivore - Apple TV+ & René Redzepi’s recent docuseries, with his post as restaurant columnist for Bloomberg. He also established the influential Metropolitan Food Archives, which has garnered him a Young British Food Award (YBFs) and a nomination for Restaurant Writer of the Year at the Fortnum & Mason Awards. Sitting at the vanguard of a growing strand in food writing, MFA looks beyond the plate and examines how geopolitics, history, migration and wider culture continues to inform how and what we eat today. He lives in South London with his wife and young family.