Vanessa Garcia is a multi-media writer and artist working from Miami and Los Angeles. She's the founding artistic Director of The Krane, a theater/arts company. She's currently working on her PhD from the University of California Irvine in Creative Nonfiction, and is a contributing writer to numerous publications from The Miami Herald to The Art Basel Magazine, among other journals, newspapers, and magazines. She's also currently shopping her novel, White Light, and working on a two new plays called The Cuban Spring and The Underground.