Other Works

Cristina contributed an essay on Texas to this anthology, inspired by the Depression-era WPA guidebooks and chosen by Amazon.com as one of the best 100 books of 2008.

Cristina’s short story “Carmen Elcira: A (Love) Life” appeared in the 2008 Fiction issue. Read the story or listen to a podcast of Cristina reading it.

Cristina contributed a non-fiction piece to this collection in which notable women writers examine Hillary Clinton and which Newsweek called, “Clever, entertaining, provocative, and elegantly written.”

Cristina contributed an online-only piece about her grandmother’s sancocho entitled “Lunch” for the New Yorker’s annual food issue.