J. Malcolm Garcia

J. Malcolm Garcia is the author most recently of The Fruit of All My Grief: Lives in the Shadows of the American Dream (Seven Stories Press 2019). Garcia is a recipient of the Studs Terkel Prize for writing about the working classes and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism. His work has been anthologized in Best American Travel Writing, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and Best American Essays.

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A Woman’s Place

By J. Malcolm Garcia July 20, 2020

The shaming and incarceration of Patricia Ann Prewitt

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That Night, It Never Ends: A Story of Life With or Without Parole

By J. Malcolm Garcia June 28, 2018

Should a convicted murderer ever be given another chance?

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Sanctuary

By J. Malcolm Garcia March 6, 2017

Under threat of deportation, a Mexican man who has made his life, and a family, in Arizona for more than twenty-five years takes indefinite refuge in a Phoenix church.

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The Book Lady of Kabul

By J. Malcolm Garcia December 1, 2015

Block by block she maneuvers through the teeming sidewalks of Kabul’s Shar-E-Naw shopping district until she enters Ice-Milk Restaurant, stops at tables.

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Unwanted Alive

By J. Malcolm Garcia May 15, 2015

Since changes to US immigration law in the ’90s, many veterans are being deported.