Cristina Rivera Garza was born
on the north-eastern Mexican frontier and currently lives between San Diego and
Tijuana. She is the author of a body of
work that touches many genres, novel, short story, poetry and essay; that is
interdisciplinary, literature and history; that is written in her native
language, Spanish, and in her second language, English. She has written articles for the Hispanic
American Historical Review and for The Journal of the History of
Medicine and Allied Sciences, as well as for other publications in the
United States. Cristina Rivera Garza
has obtained six of the most prestigious literary awards in Mexico. Her books include La más mía (The
Most Mine), poems, 1998; La guerra no importa (War Doesn’t Matter),
1991. Her novel Nadie me verá
llorar (No One Will See Me Cry), Tusquets 2000, won the National
Prize José Rubén Romero, the Impac-Conarte-ITESM Prize and, in 2001, the Sor
Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. The novel
has had an unprecedented success.