All the Water in the World

Eiren Caffall is a writer whose work primarily tackles themes of relating to loss and nature, including oceans and extinction, and her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Al Jazeera, and the anthology Elementals: Volume IV. Her literary memoir, The Mourner’s Bestiary (2024) examines her struggles with chronic illness, generational healing, and grief through the lens of stories about two collapsing marine ecosystems: the Gulf of Maine and the Long Island Sound. Caffall’s writing has received numerous accolades, including the 2023 Whiting Award in Creative Nonfiction, a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship, and residencies at the Vanff Centre, Millay Colony, MacDowell Colony, Dedgebrok, and Ragdale.

All the Water in the World is Caffall’s debut novel and builds on the themes she explored in her previous work. She authored the book over 11 years, and during much of this time she was a financially disadvantaged single parent and had chronic illnesses.

Caffall drew much inspiration for All The Water in The World from her own life. Nonie’s mother has a kidney disease similar to the inherited disorder that Caffall lives with.

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