Cristina Rivera Garza (Matamoros, Mexico, 1964) is a Mexican writer, historian, and professor whose formally 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 Prizewinning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice and a MacArthur Fellow
(2020), 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, and her new translated novel: Autobiography of Cotton, in Graywolf Press. 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.