Alma Garcia
Alma García (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, All That Rises, is forthcoming from Camino del Sol/University of Arizona Press on October 17, 2023. Life Alma García grew up in El Paso, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. She graduated from the University of New Mexico with a Bachelor of Arts in 1993, and from the University of Arizona with an MFA in 1999. She has worked as newspaper reporter and editor, construction worker, and bookseller, and is currently a fiction instructor, manuscript consultant, and artist coach based in Seattle, Washington. Her short fiction has appeared as a part of the University of Washington's School of Art, Art History and Design's Data Epics project; in phoebe, Kweli Journal, Duende, Bluestem, Enizagam, Narrative Magazine, Passages North, and Boulevard, and also as a contributor in the anthologies, Puro Chicanx Literature of the 21st Century and Roadside Curiosities: Stories of American Pop Culture. Awards 2014 Enizagam Literary Award in Fiction finalist 2009 Jack Straw Writers Program fellow 2007 Narrative Prize 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award 2005 Waasmode Fiction Prize finalist, Passages North 2004 Dana Award in Short Fiction 2000 Winner, Short Fiction Contest for Emerging Writers,