Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza
Garza at the 2024 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1964-10-01) October 1, 1964 (age 60) Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Occupation	Writer and Professor
Language	Spanish/English
Nationality	Mexican
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico
Genre	Novels, Poetry, Short Stories, etc.
Employer	University of Houston
Notable works	Nadie me verá llorar
Notable awards	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize Anna Seghers Prize
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Cristina Rivera Garza (born October 1, 1964)^[1] is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, Mexican author and professor known for her fiction and memoir. Multiple novels, including Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry), received Mexico’s highest literary awards and international honors. Born in the state of Tamaulipas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, she is a teacher and a writer who has worked in both the United States and Mexico. She taught history and creative writing at various universities and institutions, including the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Tec de Monterrey, Campus Toluca, and University of California, San Diego, but currently holds a position at the University of Houston. She received a MacArthur Fellowship,^[2] in 2020, and her recent accolades include the Juan Vicente Melo National Short Story Award, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Garza is the only author to win this award twice), and the Anna Seghers Prize.^[3]

Her 2023 memoir, ''Liliana's Invincible Summer'', which documents her sister's life, and her 1990 murder at the age of twenty by a boyfriend, was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction and won the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography.^[4][5] The book paints a portrait of her sister's life as well as investigating the causes of and society's response to intimate partner violence.