Please join the English Department for a reading with Pulitzer Prizewinner Christina Rivera Garza.
Rivera Garza is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice, the English-language version of El invencible verano de Liliana. The book won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography and was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction. Her extensive body of work includes the novels Nadie me verá llorar / No One Will See Me Cry, La cresta de Ilión / The Iliac Crest, Lo anterior, Verde Shanghai, and La muerte me da; the short fiction collections Ningún reloj cuenta esto, La frontera más distante, and New and Selected Stories; the hybrid works Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué, Autobiografía del algodón / Autobiography of Cotton, and Terrestre / Terrestrial (Fall 2026); as well as essay collections and critical works such as Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación / The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation, Dolerse: Textos desde un país herido / Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, and Escrituras geológicas. Her books have been translated into English and other languages, and her work has circulated widely in Mexico, the United States, Latin America, and Europe. She 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.
Cost: Free.
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