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Karen Babine is 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. She also edits Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction

James Guilfoyle is Associate Lecturer in History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His research area is seventeenth-century Irish economic history.

Dr. Jeffrey Longacre is an Associate Professor of English and Assistant Director of Honors Programs at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where he regularly teaches classes on Irish literature. His scholarly and teaching interests include Modernism, Irish Literature, Romanticism

Ireland’s climate is what first appealed to a pale and perpetually-sunburnt child growing up in Florida. While a student at University College Galway, I was taken to a holy well on Inis Mór and that visit sparked a life-long fascination