Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is a Mexican writer born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1964. She is the only author to have won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice. First in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar^[1] (translated into English as No One Will See Me Cry)^[2] and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da.^[3] She studied urban sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and received her Ph.d in Latin American history from the University of Houston.^[4] She teaches writing at the University of California, San Diego.

References

1. ^ Website of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
2. ^ Amazon page for No One Will See Me Cry.
3. ^ Website of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize
4. ^ Faculty page at University of California, San Diego.

External links

• Cristina Rivera Garza's personal blog (in Spanish).
• Interview with Cristina Rivera Garza in the magazine Belletrista.

Persondata
Name	Rivera Garza, Cristina
Alternative names	Rivera-Garza, Cristina
Short description	Mexican author and historian
Date of birth	1964
Place of birth	Matamoros, Tamaulipas
Date of death
Place of death