Bio
Cristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer, historian, and professor whose work moves across fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and experimental writing. She won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography for Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice. Her many honors also include a MacArthur Fellowship and two Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prizes. Her books in English include The Iliac Crest, The Taiga Syndrome, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, Death Takes Me, Autobiography of Cotton, and Terrestrial. Rivera Garza is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and Director of the Ph.D. Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston. She is also a member of El Colegio Nacional in Mexico.