Aimee Zaring
Author. Educator. Somatic Practitioner.
About Aimee
Aimee Miller Zaring is the author of the forthcoming Cutting Loose: My Journey from Survival Mode to Embodied Flow and Flavors from Home: Refugees in Kentucky Share Their Stories and Comfort Foods, winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best Charity/Fundraising Cookbook in North America.
A certified Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner, Aimee teaches how to navigate stress responses, build emotional resilience, and live a more embodied life. Her goal as an “Aim”fluencer is to point people in the direction of their own internal compass and bring more hope and healing to the world.
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Aimee earned a B.A. in English and Psychology from Bellarmine University and an MFA in Writing from Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. She is the recipient of an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council and two artist enrichment grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Adirondack Review, The Courier-Journal, and elsewhere.
Aimee lives in Northern Kentucky with her life partner, two bonus children, and Lizzie, a Pocket Beagle mix, rescued from a gas station in Mississippi.
Flavors from Home
Winner of the Gourmand World Cookbook Award, Best Charity/Fundraising Cookbook in North. America
What people are saying ….
In this beautifully written and completely original book, Zaring has done much more than interview refugees and collect their recipes. Instead, she has managed to articulate what binds us all together as people hungry for good food, community, and places to call home. Flavors from Home is an important and delightful book that will make you realize that we all have much more in common than we think, will shine light on culture and history that we don’t often hear about, and will make your mouth water. Delicious in every way.
— Silas House,
Poet Laureate of Kentucky (2023-2025) and author of Lark Ascending
We hope that the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky will read this book to better understand the positive changes being made by these refugees. It will appeal to everyone with a love of food and/or an interest in evolving culture.
— Paul & Angela Knipple,
authors of The World in a Skillet: A Food Lover’s Tour of the New American South
Through the author’s entry into the kitchen and foodways of a representative cross section of our diverse refugee population, we truly are made to feel ‘at home’ with our new neighbors….This book plays a vital role in breaking down barriers. The universal language of food and the sharing in the breaking of bread, provide an ‘in’ for those unfamiliar with refugee resettlement who might be curious about all the newcomers in town but are unsure how to connect.
— Sophie Maier,
Immigrant Services Librarian,
Louisville Free Public Library