about.
ROSA BOSHIER GONZÁLEZ (she/her) is a writer living in Houston, TX. Her short fiction, essays, art criticism, and creative nonfiction have appeared in or are forthcoming in Bomb, Joyland, Guernica, Literary Hub, Ploughshares, The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, Artforum, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Washington Post, among others. She is an alumna of the 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop and the 2022 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and a Sewanee Writers Conference scholar. She has taught writing, Latinx cultural studies, and art history at The California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art, University of Houston, and Rice University. She is at work on two novels and A Mouth Full of Dirt, a memoir on art, abuse, and silence, an excerpt of which was selected by Roxane Gay as a winner of the 2025 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt and Essay Contest. She received her MFA from The California Institute of the Arts and earned her PhD in Creative Writing & Literature at University of Houston. She formerly served as Editor-in-Chief of Gulf Coast Journal. Boshier González is the recipient of a 2021 Fulbright UK award and a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers grant. She teaches creative writing at Rice University.
