Born in Kansas City, Missouri, I hated the constant moves of my early childhood, which took me to California, Texas, and Georgia. I grew up mostly in Georgia, went to Texas, and then Nuevo Laredo, Mexico briefly before moving to Laredo, Texas. My strange adolescence--which at one point included 25 horses and ponies, an African lion and a decaying, haunted antebellum--gave me a lifetime of stories; I'm married and have four children, fodder for additional tales. Add to that grandkids, a great dane, the pit bull I swore never, ever to have, and a sometimes cat, and stories are there, whether or not the time to write presents itself day to day. When people wonder why I write, I always secretly wonder why they don't. . .I can't remember not writing.  What I say, though, is that I have always done it and can't help myself.  That writers should read, that they should care. . .and that they must write.  What else is there? And, in seeking new avenues to write, I will always be profoundly grateful to Al Gore for inventing the internet, as it provides such myriad opportunities to express my thoughts.     

Current releases from Crimson Romance include Wildflower Redemption, Unattainable, and Take Me Out. La Llorona (The Wailing Woman) is a self-published anthology of short fiction, essay, and poetry about the legend of the 'Wailing' (or weeping) Woman of Mexican lore.

Garcia is a certified elementary and bilingual teacher (Texas),with a master's in English from Texas A&M International University. She has attended the NABE (National Association of Bilingual Educators) in Philadelphia, participated in a pilot Dual Language bilingual model program at her school, has presented to her district on the implementation of brain-based learning strategies, and created her school's writing lab, the first of its kind in her district at the elementary level.