reporting on the Arizona border wall, november 2022 (photo: Eliseu Cavalcante)
with Ellen Waterston and guest judge Raquel Gutiérrez at the 2022 Waterston Desert Writing Prize awards ceremony
Caroline Eaton Tracey writes about environment, migration, art, and literature in the US Southwest, Mexico, and the borderlands between the two. She speaks and works in English, Spanish, and Russian.
Caroline’s reporting appears in the
New Yorker, n+1, the
Atlantic, and elsewhere, as well as in Spanish in Mexico’s
Nexos. In 2022-2023 she was the climate justice fellow at
High Country News. In 2022 she was awarded the Waterston Prize for Desert Writing and in 2023 she received Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Fellowship in Journalism and Human and Civil Rights. She is also an editor-at-large at Zócalo Public Square.
Her essays appear in the
Kenyon Review Online, Shenandoah,
New South, and elsewhere. “A River Passes By Here” was runner-up in the 2020
Financial Times/Bodley Head essay contest and “The Ephemeral Forever” won Ruminate Magazine’s 2021 VanderMey Nonfiction Contest. Her art writing has appeared in
Nexos, SFMOMA’s
Open Space, and
Burlington Contemporary, and her book reviews appear in the
European Review of Books and the
Nation.
Caroline holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her wife, Mexican architect and sculptor
Mariana GJP, between Tucson, Arizona and Mexico City.
She is currently seeking representation for her manuscript SALT LAKES, which combines
personal narrative and science journalism to provide a new,
queer perspective on climate change in arid environments, and a book proposal about the US-Mexico borderlands.
Ask her about sugar beets.
Caroline Eaton Tracey escribe sobre el medioambiente, la migración, el arte y la literatura en México, el Suroeste de Estados Unidos y la frontera entre ellos. Habla ingles, español y ruso.
Sus artículos aparecen en
The New Yorker,
n+1 y
The Atlantic, entre otros lugares. En español escribe frecuentemente para la revista
Nexos. En 2022-2023, cubría la justicia climática para la revista
High Country News. En 2022 ganó el Premio Waterston por Escritura del Desierto y en 2023 recibió la beca Ira A. Lipman de periodismo de derechos humanos y civiles de Columbia University. También colabora como editora en
Zócalo Public Square.
Sus ensayos aparecen en
Kenyon Review Online,
Shenandoah y
New South, entre otros lugares. “Aquí Pasa Un Río” ganó segundo lugar en el premio de ensayo
Financial Times/Bodley Head de 2020; en 2021 “Lo Efímero, Para Siempre” ganó el concurso de no-ficción VanderMey de
Ruminate Magazine. Sus reseñas y ensayos sobre el arte han aparecido en
Nexos,
Open Space (plataforma del Museo de Arte Moderno de San Francisco) y
Burlington Contemporary, y sus reseñas literarias en
European Review of Books y
The Nation.
Caroline es Doctora en Geografía de la Universidad de California–Berkeley. Vive con su esposa, la arquitecta y escultora mexicana
Mariana GJP, entre Tucson, Arizona y la Ciudad de México.
Actualmente busca publicar su manuscrito de no-ficción sobre los lagos salados y está preparando una propuesta para un libro sobre la zona fronteriza México-Estados Unidos.
Pregúntale sobre betabeles.