Caroline Tracey will write a series of articles about artists working on both sides of the US-Mexico border and their responses to the region’s worsening water crisis. In examining their work, Tracey will contribute to emerging conversations about the aesthetics of environmental loss. 

Caroline Tracey writes about the arts, the environment, and migration in the US Southwest, Mexico, and their borderlands. Her writing has appeared in publications including High Country News, The Nation, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and Nexos, and online at the National Gallery of Art’s website, for its “West to East” series, and at SFMOMA’s Open Space. Her first book, Salt Lakes, is forthcoming from W. W. Norton.