Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator and critic, and the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (2001; 2009). Originally written in Spanish, her works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and more. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies and Director of the PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston. Her novel The Illiac Crest was published by And Other Stories in 2018. Upon US Publication in 2018, The Taiga Syndrome won the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award.
