caroline eaton tracey
writer

caroline.e.tracey at gmail dot com


“The Women Fighting Mexico’s Shadow Pandemic with Art”
Stanley Center for Peace and Security
4 May 2021

“When people found out I was from Ecatepec, they treated me like I was from Iraq,” says Fany Morales. “Looking back, I do feel like I grew up in a war zone, I was surrounded by so much violence.”

Global Dispatches Podcast interview: https://www.globaldispatchespodcast.com/femicide-in-mexico-is-on-the-rise-red-flags-or-resilience-series/ 

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“Las Mujeres que Luchan con Arte contra la Doble Pandemia de México”
Centro Stanley para la Paz y la Seguridad
4 de mayo 2021

“Cuando yo hablaba de que venía de Ecatepec,  me trataban como si viniera de Iraq” —dice Fany Morales. “Y ahora, en perspectiva, siento que sí crecí en un ambiente de guerra.”

Entrevsita para el podcast Upstanders:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/189FPBCmpqm0rXznV4auP3?si=ndEnFP_dQ0iafPOPTcls-w&dl_branch=1&nd=1






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 the environment, migration, and the arts in the US Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. She speaks and works in English, Spanish, and Russian. Her first book, SALT LAKES, will be published by W.W. Norton.

Caroline’s reporting appears in the New Yorker, n+1, New York Review of Books, High Country News, and elsewhere, as well as in Spanish in Mexico’s Nexos

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 and a Silvers Foundation Work-in-Progress grant. In 2024, she received an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

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 represented by Bridget Matzie of Aevitas Creative Management.
Caroline Eaton Tracey escribe sobre el medioambiente, la migración, el arte y la literatura en México, el Suroeste de Estados Unidos y su frontera. Habla ingles, español y ruso. Su primer libro, SALT LAKES, será publicado bajo el sello de la editorial W.W. Norton.

Sus artículos aparecen en The New Yorker, n+1, New York Review of Books y High Country News entre otros lugares. En español escribe frecuentemente para la revista Nexos.

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 y una beca de la Fundación Silvers. En 2024, recibió una beca para escritura sobre el arte de la fundación Andy Warhol.

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.

La representa Bridget Matzie de la agencia literaria Aevitas Creative Management.