Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of "The Taiga Syndrome" and "The Iliac Crest.". Her memoir, "Liliana’s Invincible Summer," won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. A recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, Rivera Garza is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and director of the Ph.D. program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston. Her latest book is "Autobiography of Cotton."
Awards: Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Fellowship; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
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