Ivy Odom

Ivy Odom is the senior lifestyle editor at Southern Living and a familiar face of the Southern Living brand. She is the author of My Southern Kitchen (Abrams Books, 2025) and hosted all 40 episodes of the syndicated and Emmy-nominated The Southern Living Show. Ivy frequently shares the Southern point of view with the national audience of the Today show and Good Morning America. She is a graduate of the University of Georgia and the culinary arts program at L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Ivy lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with her husband, Luis, and her dog, Basil.