Karen Babine is the two-time Minnesota Book Award–winning author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer and Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life and the editor of Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. She is currently an UC Foundation Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee–Chattanooga.
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Books by Karen Babine
One woman’s cross-country journey to explore the hold family history has on our lives, and the power of new stories to shape what lies ahead.
“Camping alone is the only time I have to be what feels like fully myself, fully immersed in the solitude I seem to need to function best.”
Feed a fever, starve a cold, but what do we do for cancer? Generous and bittersweet, these essays ponder the intimate connections between food, family, and illness.
