Cristina Mendoza

Cristina Mendoza Texcahua is a second-generation Latina with roots in Jalisco and Michoacán. She holds a master’s degree in Latin American and Latino Studies from the University of Illinois Chicago. She is an alum of the Roots Wound Words, Storystudio, VONA, and Tin House. Her writing weaves memory, erasure, migration, and myth to explore the silences that shape personal and collective histories.