Ben Ehrenreich & Carribean Fragoza

Ben Ehrenreich is the author of The Way to the Spring as well as Desert Notebooks, and two novels, Ether and The Suitors. His journalism has appeared in The New Republic, The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and The London Review of Books among other publications, and has been honored with a National Magazine Award.

In Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time, Ben Ehrenreich embarks on a profound journey that grapples with the very essence of human existence and the looming questions of our future on this planet. This captivating hybrid of memoir, travelogue, and philosophical exploration invites readers to ponder the urgent inquiry: “What are we doing here?” With accolades that include being named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and earning a starred review from Kirkus for its "lyrical" and "well-informed" reflections, Ehrenreich's work resonates deeply within the literary community. It serves as a clarion call to reconsider our relationship with the earth, each other, and the fabric of time itself.

Carribean Fragoza is a writer and artist. She grew up in the peripheries of the Greater LA region and outside of Chicano communities of East LA that have largely come to define Chicano identity, including in culture and literature, that has shaped her literary approach. She is a graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at California Institute of the Arts. Fragoza is the prose editor of Huizache Magazine. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous publications including BOMB, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New York Times, and the most recent issue of American Short Fiction.

Eat the Mouth that Feeds You, is Caribbean Fragoza's debut collection of stories set in the domestic surreal, featuring an unusual gathering of Latinx and Chicanx voices from both sides of the U.S./Mexico border, and universes beyond. The work has received the Whiting Award and was recognized as a finalist for the PEN America Literary Award.