Alma García, author of the debut novel All That Rises (University of Arizona Press, 2023), is the winner of the 2007 Narrative Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, and the Dana Award in Short Fiction. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona. A former journalist and occasional teacher, García grew up in West Texas and has lived most of her life in New Mexico. She lives with her husband in Seattle.