AUTHOR CONVERSATION: Gabriela Garcia and Christine Vines

Write On is pleased to partner with the Friends of Door County Libraries with a reading and conversation with fiction writers Gabriela Garcia and Christine Vines.

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 teaches creative writing at the University of Illinois.  

Christine Vines is a fiction writer from Wichita, KS. Her work has appeared in One Story, BOMB, Witness, The Rumpus, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Electric Literature, The Chicago Tribune, Book of the Month’s Volume 0, and elsewhere. She was the winner of the 2022 Cecilia Joyce Johnson Award for the Short Story from the Key West Literary Seminar, runner-up for the 2018 Nelson Algren Literary Award, and 2022 American Short Fiction Workshop Scholar. She has been a Steinbeck Fellow, a Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center, and a writer-in-residence at the Hambidge Center, the Catwalk Institute, Write On Door County, the Joshua Tree Highlands Artists Residency, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Cornell University, and currently teaches creative writing at Vassar College.