Karen Pinchin
Karen Pinchin is an award-winning food-systems journalist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School’s master’s program and has reported for PBS FRONTLINE, Maclean’s and The Canadian Press. Her work has recently appeared in Scientific American, Vox, The Counter and Canadian Geographic.
As a Logan Nonfiction fellow, Karen will finish her first narrative nonfiction book about the life of a mercurial fishing captain and the complex history and future of Atlantic bluefin tuna. It is a book of biography, science, economics, politics, crime and culture, bound by an exploration of what drives humans to understand and control nature. It will be published by Dutton Publishing, William Collins Publishing and Knopf Canada and has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Canada Council for the Arts.