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Utterby

Long, careful writing about how we talk to each other.

Staff Writer

Ellis Navarro

Tucson, AZ · Covers Bilingual life, borderlands, and translation

Ellis Navarro writes about bilingual households, borderland speech, and the small negotiations of switching languages mid-sentence. They came to Utterby in 2022 after a fellowship at a public radio station on the Arizona border. Ellis grew up moving between Spanish and English at the dinner table and still counts in whichever language the number arrived in.

Stories by Ellis (2)