American writer
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 is a graduate 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.