Karen Stabiner is a journalist whose essays have appeared in The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times. She is the author of eleven books, including Generation Chef, To Dance with the Devil: The New War on Breast Cancer (a New York Times Notable Book), and My Girl: Adventures with a Teen in Training. She has also written two cookbooks and two novels. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Eater LA, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Yorker, Gourmet (a James Beard Award finalist), Saveur, Vogue, and Mother Jones. She lives in Santa Monica, CA.