Michelle Garcia

Michelle García is a journalist and essayist and recent Soros Equality fellow with Open Society Foundations. She is a contributor to the forthcoming anthology, Democracy on the Line: Trumpism and the Latino Predicament. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian, CNN and numerous other publications. She is the curator and editor of the Rewriting the West series which was published by Guernica magazine and her three-part series on the U.S.-Mexico border was recently published by Baffler magazine.

García is the former Texas correspondent for the Columbia Journalism Review and she reported from the New York bureau of The Washington Post for three years.

García is one of two journalists awarded in early 2021 the American Mosaic Journalism Prize. She received the recipient of the prestigious Dobie Paisano fellowship through The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, a Lannan writer-in-residence in Marfa Texas and a Knight fellowship through the International Center for Journalists. She is also the director and producer of the documentary film “Against Mexico: the Making of Heroes and Enemies, which was acquired by PBS.org. She is working on a book about borders.