Karen Babine

Karen Babine is the two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota, 2015). Her third book, The Allure of Elswhere: A Memoir of Going Solo, is out now from Milkweed Editions. She is also the founder and editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. She teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.