Cristina García (born July 4, 1958) is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist. Her first novel Dreaming in Cuban (1992) was a finalist for the National Book Award. She has since published her novels (1997) and Monkey Hunting (2003), and has edited books of Cuban and other Latin American literature. (2007) follows three children from Cuba, over twenty-six years through sacrifices and forced exiles.