Gabriela Garcia

Gabriela Garcia is the author of the New York Times–bestselling novel Of Women and Salt, which was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and Good Morning America book club pick, among other honors. Her fiction and poems have been published widely in Best American Poetry, Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Mexico, she worked as a feminist and migrant rights organizer for a decade before pursuing an MFA in fiction from Purdue. She also holds a BA in sociology and media studies from Fordham University and lives in the Bay Area.