Kimberly Garza

Kimberly Garza is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Last Karankawas, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an Indie Next pick. Her stories and essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Texas Highways, Copper Nickel, and elsewhere, and she was a 2024 National Endowment of the Arts creative writing fellow. A native Texan—born in Galveston, raised in Uvalde—she teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she directs the creative writing program.