Eirinie Carson

Eirinie Carson is a Black British mother and author based in California. Her fiction examines ancestral inheritance, racism, poverty, and food scarcity, often drawing on her own life. She was a 2026 Writing Artist in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, where she worked on a third book, One Last Thing, about her father's early years as a Caribbean immigrant in 1990s London. She has written a memoir, The Dead Are Gods, and a novel, Bloodfire, Baby. She is also working on a short story collection, Model Citizens.