Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and scholar with a focus on queer ecologies and decolonial theory and praxis. She is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (2017) that examines five scenes of ruinous extractive capitalism and Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Américas (2018), a text of critical hope about the role of submerged art and solidarity in troubled times. She is also author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (2010). She is working on a new book, At the Sea’s Edge that considers colonial oceanic transits and the generative space between land and sea, as well as creative writing projects. She received the Pratt Institute Research Recognition Award (2021–2022) and the University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Alumni Award (2021–2022). She is Timothy C. Forbes and Anne S. Harrison University Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and teaches at the Brown Arts Institute.