Kimberly Garza
Autor/a de The Last Karankawas
Obres de Kimberly Garza
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Galveston, Texas, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Uvalde, Texas, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA - Educació
- University of Texas, Austin
University of North Texas (PhD) - Professions
- Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of Texas, San Antonio
- Biografia breu
- Kimberly Garza (she/her) is a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Copper Nickel, Puerto del Sol, Creative Nonfiction, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. She holds degrees in English, Spanish, and creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas, where she earned a PhD in 2019.
A native Texan—born in Galveston, raised in Uvalde—she is the daughter of a Filipina immigrant mother and a Mexican-American father from the Rio Grande Valley. She lives in San Antonio, where she is an associate professor of creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Membres
Ressenyes
Premis
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 1
- Membres
- 63
- Popularitat
- #268,028
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 7
- ISBN
- 5
A series of vignettes of different characters' connected lives leading up to, during, and after the storm. There is a nurse, a baseball fan, a shrimper and the wandering Iraq veteran he takes in, a medicine woman, a grandmother, a widower... They have all come from different places, have separate dreams and challenges, but they all unite as a community when need arises (and may separate again when the storm passes).
It was easy to listen to this enjoyable full-cast audio production; I liked that I could enjoy the different narratives without worrying too much about remembering the details of any one character's lives.… (més)