Apr
27
8:00pm
A Reading and Conversation with Carribean Fragoza
By UCR Tomás Rivera Conference
The daughter of Mexican immigrants, Carribean Fragoza was raised in South El Monte, California. After graduating from UCLA, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts. She co-edits UC Press's acclaimed California cultural journal, Boom California, and is also the founder of South El Monte Arts Posse, an interdisciplinary arts collective. Her collection of stories Eat the Mouth That Feeds You was published in 2021 by City Lights and has received acclaim from the New York Times and a started Kirkus review. Her co-edited compilation of essays, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte covers over 300 years of her hometown's history, and was published by Rutgers University Press. It was named one of the 10 best books about California by the LA Times.
Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Zyzzyva, Electric Lit, The Millions, LitHub, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, KCET and the Los Angeles Review of Books as well as ArtNews, and Aperture Magazine. Most recently she published an essay on Joan Didion and motherhood in Harper's Bazaar. She is a senior writer at Tropics of Meta. Carribean lives in the San Gabriel Valley in LA County with her husband and their two daughters.
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