The darkly comic novel King of Cuba is Cristina Garcia's latest work. Garcia is one of the writers featured at next week's Murray State MFA in Creative Writing January Reading Series. She reads Tuesday, January 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Clara Eagle Gallery, sixth floor, Doyle Fine Arts Building. Born in Havana, and raised in New York City, Garcia has written six novels; she's edited two anthologies; she's authored works for young readers; a collection of poetry, and a young adult novel. A National Book Award nominee, Garcia has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers' Award, A Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and an NEA Grant. We meet the author, with Kate Lochte.
Novelist, poet, and teacher, Cristina Garcia is one of the writers featured at next week's Murray State MFA in Creative Writing January Reading Series. She reads Tuesday, January 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Clara Eagle Gallery, sixth floor, Doyle Fine Arts Building.