Priya Krishna grew up in Dallas, Texas, and is a 2013 graduate of Dartmouth College, where she became adept at assembling meals from the A la carte items available at the dining hall. Priya contributed to the Small Kitchen College website and wrote a dining column for "The Dartmouth". In 2012, she was an intern at the Food Network, where she wrote daily content for the Dish blog and other parts of the website. She is currently an intern at a PR firm in New York that specializes in the restaurant business. She lives in New York City.