All the Water in the World, a novel (2025)

Now available from St. Martin’s Press

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Kirkus Starred — “Gripping, beautifully descriptive, and likely to stay with you.”

Booklist Starred — “Caffall channels her considerable ecological expertise and wrenching personal experiences into her commanding, heart-pounding, and haunting first novel, which follows her ravishing memoir, The Mourner’s Bestiary.”

Barnes and Noble Discover Book for January 2025

Strand Bookstore Sci-Fi Pick for January 2025

Indie Next Pick for January 2025

When the world collapses, will our love for each other? Each sentence is a treasure. Read this and be changed.

—Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder and Sleeping Giants

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The Mourner’s Bestiary, a memoir (2024)

Now available from Row House Publishing

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Kirkus Starred — “A latter day Rachel Carson… A future classic of nature writing—if, that is, there is a future.”

Publisher’s Weekly Starred — “This deserves a wide readership.”

Booklist Starred — “This intricate, delving, and affecting rhapsody to the glory of the seas and our capacity for love, learning, and transformation sings with sorrow, awe, courage, and hope.”

Eiren Caffall has produced some of the most powerful writing on the ecological crisis that I have read anywhere.

—Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger

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Photo by Whiting Foundation on December 06, 2023. May be an image of 1 person, magazine and text that says 'Eiren Caffall whiting FOUNDATION The Mourner's Bestiary draws a poetic parallel between the body's experience of chronic disease and the marine ecosystems Caffall knows well-an unexpected juxtaposition that gives new dimension to climate hazards we face and opportunities to address them. 2023 WHITING CREATIVE NONFICTION GRANTEE'.

2023 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee


BECOMING OCEAN

Dir: Scott K. Foley
Written: Eiren Caffall