Ayurella Horn-Muller is a staff writer at Grist, where she covers food and agriculture. Prior to that, she reported for Axios and Climate Central, and produced broadcast news at WPLG. Her work has also appeared in CNN, National Geographic, El País, The Associated Press, The Atlantic, Mother Jones, The Guardian, WIRED, Scientific American, Yahoo News, Popular Science, Gizmodo, Eater, USA TODAY, The Miami Herald, and a number of other publications.
Based in Florida, she has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and Green Eyeshade Awards, and had her work honored in anthologies including The Best American Food & Travel Writing 2025, published by HarperCollins. She's also been awarded numerous media fellowships. This includes selection as a 2023 Society of Environmental Journalists and Uproot Project Diversity Fellow, 2022 Metcalf Institute Fellow, 2022 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Ocean Science Journalism Fellow, and 2022 Oregon State University Food and Agriculture Media Fellow. She is the author of Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South.