Cristina Rivera Garza

Monday, January 01, 2024

Cristina Rivera Garza was born in Mexico in 1964 and immigrated to the United States in 1989. In 1995, Garza earned her PhD in History from the University of Houston. Garza is an author, scholar, academic, and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography for El invencible verano de Liliana (Liliana’s Invincible Summer) in 2024.