Thomas Ray Garcia

Thomas Ray Garcia is the author of the award-winning book The River Runs: Stories and the co-author of the historical memoir El Curso de la Raza: The Education of Aurelio Manuel Montemayor. At Princeton University, he received the Ward Mathis Short Story Prize for his fiction on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He also is the founder of the College Scholarship Leadership Access Program (CSLAP), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that teaches college access classes and connects near-peer mentors to students in the Rio Grande Valley.