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Caroline Tracey

Mexico, Tucson
As seen in: Zócalo Public Square, MSN UK, The Guardian, Yahoo Canada, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, WIRED Magazine, Columbia Journalism School, Slate, The New Yorker, Flipboard and
Covers:  migration, borderlands, environment, environmental justice, art, literature
escritora aridoamericana | SALT LAKES: An Unnatural History now available from @wwnorton
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Caroline Tracey’s Biography

Caroline Eaton Tracey writes about art, literature, environment, and migration in the US Southwest, Mexico, and the borderlands between the two. She speaks and works in English, Spanish, and Russian.

Currently, Caroline is the Climate Justice Fellow at the High Country News and an editor-at-large Zócalo Public Square. Her reporting appears in n+1, the Nation, the Guardian, Rest of World, and elsewhere, as well as in Spanish in Mexico’s Nexos. Her reportage about migrant death in South Texas won the 2019 Scoundrel Time/Summer Literary Seminars nonfiction contest.

Caroline’s personal essays appear in the Kenyon Review Online, Full Stop, 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, Variable West, SFMOMA’s Open Space, and Burlington Contemporary.

Caroline holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her wife, Mexican architect and sculptor Mariana GJP, and their dog, Lázaro, between Tucson, Arizona and Mexico City.She is currently seeking representation for SALT LAKES, her manuscript of essays, as well as preparing a book proposal about the effects of US border and migration policy in Mexico.