Vanessa Garcia

Vanessa Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist working as a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. Her most recent play includes the immersive hit, The Amparo Experience (“Miami’s Hottest Ticket,” according to People en Español). She’s also written for TV, and was a Sesame Street Writer’s Room Fellow. Her debut novel, White Light, was published in 2015, to critical acclaim. Named one of the Best Books of 2015 by NPR, it also won an International Latino Book Award. As a journalist, feature writer, and essayist, her pieces have appeared in The LA Times, The Miami Herald, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Narrative.ly, and American Theatre Magazine, among numerous other publications. She holds a PhD from the University of California Irvine in English (with a focus in Creative Nonfiction), an MFA from the University of Miami (in fiction), and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (English and Art History).  She wants to express her gratitude here to her amazing cohort and to the group of women she has had the honor and luck to work with these past two years at the WP Lab. This makes her a playwright with a very, very happy heart.