Eiren Caffall

Discipline: Fiction/Nonfiction Writing

Based In: Chicago, IL

Year at Millay: 2018

Awards/Honors: Artist-in-Residence, Residency Program, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL (2024); Award Winner, Whiting Award in Creative Nonfiction, Whiting Foundation, New York, NY (2023); Writer-in-Residence, Hedgebrook, Freeland, WA (2018); Writer-in-Residence, Literary Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada.

Website: http://www.eirencaffall.com

Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician. Her work on loss, oceans, and extinction has appeared in Orion, Writer’s Digest, Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV. Fire, forthcoming in 2024 from The Center for Humans and Nature. She received a 2023 Whiting Award in Creative Nonfiction, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and residencies at the Banff Centre, Hedgebrook, and Ragdale. Her books include her memoir The Mourner’s Bestiary (Row House Publishing, October 2024) and her novel All the Water in the World (St. Martin’s Press, January 2025).