Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza, Ph.D., is a Mexican-American author and scholar. She is the award-winning author of several novels, collections of short stories, poetry and non-fiction books. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into multiple languages, including English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Korean. The recipient of the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (Paris, 2013); as well as the Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2005), she is the only author to win the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice, in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar (translated into English by Andrew Hurley as No One Will See Me Cry) and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da.

Rivera Garza is a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellow for Fiction and Non-Fiction Writing. She currently works as the Director of the Creative Writing Program in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston (Texas) and is a member of El Colegio Nacional (Mexico’s Academy of Sciences).

At the moment she is a fellow of the DAAD’s (German Academic Exchange Service) Berliner Künstler Programm.