She was  born on the north-eastern Mexican frontier and currently lives between San Diego and Tijuana.  She is the author of a body of work that touches many genres, novel, short story, poetry and essay; that is interdisciplinary, literature and history; that is written in her native language, Spanish, and in her second language, English.  She has written articles for the Hispanic American Historical Review and for The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, as well as for other publications in the United States. 
Cristina Rivera Garza has obtained six of the most prestigious literary awards in Mexico.  Her books include La más mía (The Most Mine), poems, 1998; La guerra no importa (War Doesn't Matter), 1991.  Her novel Nadie me verá llorar (No One Will See Me Cry), Tusquets 2000, won the National Prize José Rubén Romero, the Impac-Conarte-ITESM Prize and, in 2001, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.  The novel has had an unprecedented success.