Carribean Fragoza is an artist and writer from South El Monte. After graduating from UCLA, Fragoza completed the Creative Writing MFA Program at CalArts, where she worked with writers Douglas Kearney and Norman Klein. 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. From 2014 to 2016 she was the managing editor at KCET. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications, including Zyzzyva, Alta, BOMB, Huizache, Aperture, Harper’s Bazaar, KCET, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is the co-editor of East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte and the author of Eat the Mouth that Feeds You (City Lights), which is a finalist for a PEN award.
