Karen Babine is the two-time Minnesota Book Award-winning author of The Allure of Elsewhere: A Memoir of Going Solo (Milkweed Editions, 2025), 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 Press, 2015).
She is the founder and editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Forthcoming books include the first edited collection of Assay work, Innovations in the Craft of Creative Nonfiction (Texas Review Press, 2027); and Updraft: the lift, drag, craft, and flight of creative nonfiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2027).
She is a UC Foundation associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.
She is the founder and editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. Forthcoming books include the first edited collection of Assay work, Innovations in the Craft of Creative Nonfiction (Texas Review Press, 2027); and Updraft: the lift, drag, craft, and flight of creative nonfiction (Bloomsbury Academic, 2027).
She is a UC Foundation associate professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga.