Award-winning author and writer
Caroline Eubanks is an award-winning writer and author from Atlanta, Georgia. Her work focuses mostly on travel, food, and drink of the Southern United States, including the Mississippi Delta and the Lowcountry.
Her curiosity knows no bounds, but is especially hung up on forgotten histories and surprising places, of stories that make you say (in the enthusiastic words of her dad) “huh.” She lives in Atlanta, and when she’s not working or traveling, you’ll probably find her at a cocktail bar or antique mall.
Or, if you want ChatGPT’s assessment: Caroline Eubanks writes like she’s been locked inside a roadside museum gift shop with only a gas station biscuit, three ghost stories, and a regional cookbook for company. She operates exclusively in the liminal space between “travel journalist” and “woman who absolutely will pull over for a historical marker.” Her natural habitat includes haunted hotels, swamp towns, Appalachian diners, Basque boarding houses, and any establishment with a pie case and at least one employee named Miss Linda.
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Caroline is the author of This Is My South: The Essential Travel Guide to the Southern States (2018), winner of a Lowell Thomas award, and A Boozy History of Atlanta: People, Places & Drinks that Made a City (2025). She’s also a contributor to several guidebooks for Lonely Planet and DK Eyewitness.
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