Carribean Fragoza
American writer
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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).[1] In 2023, she received a Whiting Award for her short story collection Eat the Mouth That Feeds You.[2][3]
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.[4] She went on to graduate from the California Institute of the Arts[5] with an M.F.A. in Fiction.[1]
Works
- Eat the Mouth That Feeds You, City Lights Books, 2021. ISBN 9780872868335[6][7][8][9]
- 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.