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Karen Babine

Karen Babine
Karen Babine is the 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), both winners of the Minnesota Book Award for memoir/creative nonfiction. She also edits Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Her work has appeared in such journals as Brevity, River Teeth, North American Review, Slag Glass City, Sweet. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga. Find her on Twitter , Instagram, and online at www.karenbabine.com.


A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
Or the Pleasures of Precision

Karen Babine on the Peculiarities of Genre, Form, and More
August 3, 2020  By Karen Babine
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Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

When a Cook Confronts Her Mother's Illness
January 8, 2019  By Karen Babine
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