Old Babes in the Woods is the ninth collection of short stories by Margaret Atwood, published March 7, 2023.

The characters featured in the first and third parts, Tig and Nell, were also the focus of the author's 2006 collection Moral Disorder.

The author considers these stories autofiction rather than memoir: "They're fairly close to some things that happened in our life.

"[2] Novelist Rebecca Makkai describes many of the stories as "wisdom from the advance guard" and their author as "our four-faced Janus, who’s got one face turned to the past, one to the present, one to the future and the fourth inside a spaceship, telling stories about eating horses" in The New York Times book review.

"[5] Reporting for NPR, Gabino Iglesias describes the collection as showcasing "Atwood's imagination and her perennial obsession with getting to the core of what makes us human while dishing out plenty of entertainment and eye-opening revelations along the way.