Carribean Fragoza

Carribean Fragoza is an American journalist, writer, and artist. She is the founder and co-director of the arts collective, South El Monte Art Posse (SEMAP). In 2023, she received a Whiting Award for her short story collection Eat the Mouth That Feeds You.

Life

She grew up in South El Monte. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles where she majored in Comparative Literature and Chicana/o Studies. She went on to graduate from the California Institute of the Arts with an M.F.A. in Fiction.

Works

• Eat the Mouth That Feeds You, City Lights Books, 2021. ISBN 9780872868335
• Guzman, Romeo; Fragoza, Carribean; Cummings, Alex Sayf; Reft, Ryan, eds. (2020). East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-1-9788-0548-4.

References

External links

• About – Carribean Fragoza
• The PEN Ten: An Interview with Carribean Fragoza - PEN America