Gabriela Garcia is a fiction writer and poet. She is the author of the novel Of Women and Salt, a New York Times and indie bestseller, winner of the International Latino Book Award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a Good Morning America book club pick, among other honors. Of Women and Salt was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Harper’s Bazaar, and many other publications. Her writing also appears in Best American Poetry, the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, Tin House, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. She has an MFA in fiction from Purdue University.