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, and the arts in the US Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. She speaks and works in English, Spanish, and Russian. She is currently working on her first book, SALT LAKES, which will be published by W.W. Norton.
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. She is also an editor-at-large at
Zócalo Public Square.
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.
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.
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. Actualmente está trabajando en su primer libro, SALT LAKES, que será publicado bajo el sello de la editorial W.W. Norton.
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. También colabora como editora en Zócalo Public Square.
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.
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.
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.