"I first met Alma García at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. I knew her work would be important, and now All That Rises proves it. Alma brings it and gives it all. Enhorabuena, novelista. An auspicious debut."—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels 

Alma García is a writer whose award-winning short fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine and most recently in phoebe and the anthology Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. She is a past recipient of a fellowship from the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Originally from El Paso, she now lives in Seattle, where she teaches fiction writing at the Hugo House and is a manuscript consultant. All That Rises, her first novel, will be published in the Camino del sol series by The University of Arizona Press.