Sarah Rafael Garcia

Sarah Rafael García is an award-winning Chicana author, multimedia artist, digital archivist, and literary arts advocate born in Brownsville, Texas, and raised in Santa Ana, California. As a child of immigrants and a first-generation graduate, she knows what it means to fail and triumph in life. Her book, SanTana’s Fairy Tales, is part of an oral history multimedia exhibition awarded by the Andy Warhol Foundation and a required Ethnic Studies text in the Santa Ana Unified School District. Her most recent creative nonfiction publications focus on the lives of her Abuelitas Cata and Maria Luisa, which were featured in Eater and the Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures. García's work in the digital humanities (DH) began as a 2020 USLDH-Mellon Grantee with the University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities Center and includes virtual timelines, Mapping Santa Ana, the Modesta Avila archives, and Womxn of Color at the Frontlines in Orange County, along with DH training for-and-by the community and Ethnofiction Through Contemporary Narratives in classrooms. García is the founder of LibroMobile Arts Cooperative and the 2023-2025 Visiting Scholar of Creative Writing with the Latinx Lab at the CSUF Chicana/o Studies Department.