Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of several books, including Liliana’s Invincible Summer, winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Memoir. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. She is the M. D. Anderson Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and director of the PhD program in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.
