Cristina Garcia

Cristina García is a Cuban-born American novelist and playwright born on July 4, 1958, in Havana, Cuba, who moved to the United States with her family in 1961. She established her reputation as an important voice in Latin American literature with her debut novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992), a National Book Award finalist that explores the displacement and cultural identity of Cuban émigrés. García has since published eight novels and edited multiple anthologies of Cuban and Latin American literature, with her work translated into fifteen languages.