Caroline Tracey: Salt Lakes

Caroline Eaton Tracey is a writer and geographer whose work focuses on the US Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. Her first book, a hybrid memoir titled Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, will be published by W.W. Norton in March 2026. Caroline's research and writing have been supported by a Fulbright fellowship, the American Council for Learned Societies, the Waterston Desert Writing Prize, an Ira A. Lipman Fellowship in Journalism and Human and Civil Rights, a Silvers Foundation Work-in-Progress grant, an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer’s Grant, and the inaugural On the Brinck | Places Prize for writing about the Southwest. She holds a BA in Russian Literature and a PhD in Geography. She lives with her wife, Mexican architect Mariana GJP, in Tucson, Arizona

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