Krystal Anali Vazquez (M.A.’16), won the 2023 George Garrett Fiction Prize for her debut novel Lady Without Land / Señorita Sin Tierra, selected by Manuel Muñoz

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Krystal Anali Vazquez, a graduate of the M.A. in English program at Georgetown, won the 2023 George Garrett Fiction Prize judged by Manuel Muñoz. She won the prize for her first novel, Lady without Land / Señorita sin tierra, which will be published by Texas Review Press on November 1, 2024. The book is now available for pre-order.

“Sharp and ferocious, uncompromising and funny, Lady Without Land is a maddening and compulsively readable novel, filled to the brim with brash anecdotes and tender insights, too, about family, sex, doubt, and the search for self. Proof positive that we all have stories we read and hear, desperate to find something to drown out our sorrows, and find ourselves serving up straight shots of our own defiant music.”—Manuel Muñoz, author of What You See in the Dark, Contest Judge

Congratulations, Krystal!
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