Paul Greenberg (born 1967) is an American author and essayist. His 2002 novel Leaving Katya about the collapse of a Russian-American marriage was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
Since 2005 Greenberg has written regularly for the New York Times in the Magazine, Book Review and Opinion sections, focusing on fish, aquaculture and the future of the ocean.
His book, The Future of the Last Wild Food, was published by Penguin Press on July 15, and has entered the New York Times Best Selling Hard Cover List as of August 13 .
Greenberg has been both a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow and a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Food and Society Policy Fellow. His 2005 New York Times Magazine article on Chilean Sea Bass received the International Association of Culinary Professionals' "Bert Greene Award" for excellence in food writing.