Her debut novel,
The Floating World, was named one of the Best Books of 2017 by
Kirkus Reviews, Amazon,
The Dallas Morning News, and
Southern Living.
The New York Times called
The Floating World an
elegy for post-
Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.
The Irish Times called it an excellent debut charting "a family's chaos after Hurricane Katrina." Her essay "The House of Myth: On the Architecture of White Supremacy", published in
Oxford American, was selected as a Notable Essay in
The Best American Essays 2020 and her essay "Death Is a Way to Be", published in
Guernica, was selected as a Notable Essay in
The Best American Essays 2016. Her nonfiction, which tends to center on New Orleans themes, has been published in
The Washington Post,
Guernica,
Oxford American,
Saveur,
Garden & Gun,
Lenny Letter, and LitHub. Babst's short fiction has been published in
Bayou Magazine,
The Literary Review,
The Butter,
jmww,
Harvard Review, and
New Orleans Review. ==Books==