Christine Granados was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She is a stay-at-home mother of two sons and a freelance journalist. Her collection of short stories, Brides and Sinners in El Chuco, was published by University of Arizona Press in 2006. She was a Spur Award Finalist for Best Short Fiction for the story “Inner View” in 2007 and was named one of the Top Ten “New” Latino Authors to Watch (and read) by LatinoStories.com, 2007. She was the winner of the 2006 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award, a grant given by Sandra Cisneros to further the aspirations of new writers. Brides and Sinners was a finalist in the short story category for the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year, 2006 and received a notable book mention in the Pima County Public Library Southwest Books of the Year awards in 2006. Her stories have been featured in Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature, Not Quite What I was Planning: And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure (HarperCollins 2008); Texas Observer, El Andar Magazine, Big Tex[t] and the Newspaper Tree. She is a graduate of UT El Paso's School of Communications and the MFA creative writing program at Texas State
University in San Marcos, Texas

Christine Granados
P.O. Box 552
Rockdale, Texas 76567
Christine@rockdalereporter.com