Christina Rivera-Garza is an author, translator and critic. The recipient of The Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (Paris, 2013); as well as the Anna Seghers (Berlin, 2005); she twice won the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, in 2001 for her novel Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry) and again in 2009 for her novel La muerte me da. She has developed transnational cross-genre projects with artists and musicians. Born on the US-Mexico border (Matamoros, 1964), she has lived in the United States since 1989. She is currently the distinguished professor of Hispanic studies and creative writing at the University of Houston, and director of its PhD creative writing program in Spanish. She swims. A translation of The Taiga Syndrome by Aviva Kana and Suzanne Jill Levine will be published in Dorothy, a publishing project in the fall of 2018.