Cristina Garcia, Author of King of Cuba:
Lafayette Library and Learning Center
3491 Mt Diablo Blvd, Lafayette
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
7:30pm – 8:30pm | $15Cristina Garcia is the author of six novels including Dreaming in Cuban, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, and The Aguero Sisters. King of Cuba is a darkly comic novel featuring a fictionalized Fidel Castro, an octogenarian Miami exile, and a rabble of Cuban voices.
Ms. Garcia is a visiting faculty in fiction at Saint Mary’s College MFA in Creative Writing.
She has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fourteen languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenhiem Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship to Princeton University and an NEA grant, among others.