Alma Garcia

Who is this?

Alma García (born 1970) is an American novelist and short story writer. University of Arizona Press published her debut novel, All That Rises, on October 17, 2023. 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 Master of Fine Arts in 1999. She has worked as journalist 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.

Career

1. 1970
   Born

Trivia

• •Known as: writer