She has been a Spur Award finalist and winner of the 2006 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation Award. Christine's fiction and nonfiction has appeared in the Evergreen Review, Callaloo, NPR's Latino USA, Texas Monthly, Texas Observer, El Andar, and others. It has been anthologized in several college textbooks and anthologies, including NewBorder: Contemporary Voices from the Texas/Mexico Border; Looking North: Writings from Spanish America on the US, 1800 to the Present; The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction; Texas Literature: A Case Study; Literary El Paso; Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing; Arriba Baseball!: A Collection of Latino/a Baseball Fiction; and Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Writers.
Granados received a BA in journalism from UT El Paso and an MFA in creative writing from Texas State University. Before joining the faculty at Texas Tech University, Granados taught at the University of Houston-Victoria and Texas A&M University. Editor at Moderna and Hispanic magazines for several years, she worked as journalist for the El Paso Times, Austin American-Statesman, Rockdale Reporter, and People Magazine.
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