Cristina Rivera Garza

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Author, translator, and critic Cristina Rivera Garza’s recent novels include The Taiga Syndrome (trans. Suzanne Jill Levine & Aviva Kana, 2018), The Iliac Crest (trans. Sarah Booker, 2017), and Había mucha neblina o humo o no sé qué (2016). She is distinguished professor and founder of the PhD in creative writing in Spanish at the University of Houston.

Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza
London. Hogarth. 2025. 320 pages.In Cristina Rivera Garza’s Death Takes Me, nothing is what it seems. In fact, all the formulaic aspects of detective fiction are called into…
New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza
St. Louis. Dorothy Project. 2022. 280 pages. ENGLISH-LANGUAGE readers finally have the chance to enter into the beguiling, menacing, and strangely poignant world that one of Mex…
On Our Toes: Women against the Femicide Machine in Mexico

Winter 2020
Cristina Rivera Garza
A woman runs with a purple smoke bomb during a protest against sexual abuse of women on August 16, 2019, in Mexico City. Photo: Cristopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images Though the feminist…
The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza
New York. Feminist Press. 2017. 136 pages.The Iliac Crest is a bizarre and mystifying gothic tale told from the perspective of a cynical and paranoid narrator, a doctor obsessed with the ocea…