Karen Babine
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Karen Babine (pronounced bay-byne) is the two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life (University of Minnesota, 2015), and All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer (Milkweed Editions, 2019). Her third book, Acadie: A Family  Ecology is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in spring 2023. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Eastern Washington University and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently an assistant professor of English at the University of  Tennessee-Chattanooga.

She is also the founder and editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, whose goal is to publish the best nonfiction scholarship and pedagogy across disciplines. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Eastern Washington University and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 

​ In her spare time, she loves to cook and hunt through thrift stores for treasures.

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