Rita Williams-Garcia author biography, plus links to books by Rita Williams-Garcia.

Rita Williams-Garcia

Winner of the PEN/Norma Klein Award, Rita Williams-Garcia is the author of five other distinguished novels for young adults: Blue Tights, Every Time a Rainbow Dies, Fast Talk on a Slow Track, Like Sisters on the Homefront, and No Laughter Here, the latter four of which were chosen as ALA Best Books for Young Adults. Like Sisters on the Homefront was also named a Coretta Scott King Honor Book and a best book of the year by ALA Booklist, School Library Journal, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, and Publishers Weekly.

She is currently a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in the Writing for Children & Young Adults Program. She has two daughters and lives in Jamaica, New York.

This biography was last updated on 03/01/2009.

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