Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of over fifteen works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism, including most recently El invencible Verano de Liliana (Random House, 2021), Autobiografía del algodón (Random House, 2020), and Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press, 2020), which was longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. One of the most important voices in contemporary Mexican literature, she is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and founder of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston, and a 2020 MacArthur Fellow. (updated 10/2021)