2026 Latinx Voices Author Series: in Conversation with Cristina Rivera Garza
Join us for an interview and book signing with Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza, 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice.
Rivera Garza joins a distinguished list of authors, including Xochitl Gonzalez, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Elizabeth Acevedo, Sandra Cisneros, and Kali Fajardo-Anstine, hosted by the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, the Newcomb Institute and with the support of WWNO. The writers featured in this series explore Latine/Latinx identity, race, and Latin America in works bridging contemporary fiction and cultural criticism. Cristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer, historian, and professor whose innovative work has reshaped contemporary literature in Spanish. For more than two decades, her fiction and essays have explored gendered violence, memory, the body, language, and the U.S.–Mexico border through hybrid forms that weave archival research with intimate narrative.
She is the 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow, and has received major international prizes, including the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (twice), the Anna Seghers Prize, and the Roger Caillois Award. Her books available in English include No One Will See Me Cry, The Iliac Crest, The Taiga Syndrome, Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, New and Selected Stories, Liliana’s Invincible Summer, and Autobiography of Cotton. She is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and director of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
This event is free and open to the public.
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3545740-0
Website: https://go.evvnt.com/3545740-2
