"Carribean Fragoza goes deep. [Eat the Mouth That Feeds You] makes central the lives of women, whether sourced locally or rooted in Mexico, whether alive or dead to the world, surrealistic or hyper realistic, in the flesh or as spirits centuries old. This is storytelling that astonishes, passing through industrialized lives of women like gamma rays or cosmic rays--and I was not only astonished, I was moved. Kafka said, 'A book must be an axe for the frozen sea that is within us.' Be careful how you heft this book--it's sharp as obsidian, this axe." -Sesshu Foster, author of Atomik Aztex

Carribean Fragoza is a writer and artist from South El Monte, California. Growing 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, has shaped her literary approach. A graduate of the Creative Writing MFA program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Fragoza has published fiction and poetry in publications such as Alta, Air/Light, BOMB Magazine, Huizache, Entropy, Palabra Literary Magazine and Emohippus. Fragoza is the founder and co-director of the South El Monte Art Posse (SEMAP), a multi-disciplinary arts collective, and is currently the co-editor of Boom California: A Journal of UC Press. Her book, East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte was published by Rutgers University Press in 2020, and her first book of fiction, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You will be published by City Lights  in March, 2021.