Caroline Eaton Tracey (She/Her/Hers)
Andrew Emery BrownCaroline Tracey is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, High Country News, and elsewhere. Her first book, Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, will be published by W.W. Norton in March 2026. Originally from Colorado, Caroline holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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Communities: Arizona Author, Tucsonan, LGBTQ+
Book:
Salt Lakes
An Unnatural History
Nature / Environment
W. W. Norton, Incorporated
March 2026
ISBN 9781324089025
Hardcover, 288 pages
Salt lakes are some of the world’s most extraordinary ecosystems, but nearly all of
them—from the Great Salt Lake to the Aral Sea—are drying up, a harbinger of dust
storms, rising sea levels, and worsening human health.
In this dazzling love letter to
strange and delicate waters and a moving odyssey into her own identity, Caroline
Tracey takes readers across the American West and to Mexico, Argentina, and
Kazakhstan to document salt lakes, their loss, and the efforts underway to save them.
She explores how the lakes have reflected the fast–changing natural world through
Mormon diaries, Soviet realist novels, and Australian Aboriginal paintings. And she
unravels the lakes’ lessons for her own life as she finds queer love and a sense of home
in an imperfect world. An unforgettable coming–of–age story and an exquisite work of
nature writing, Salt Lakes is a moving call to fight for all that is fragile in our lives. More/less
