A deconstructionist with a penchant for Aristotelian logic and a mentor to Tejano writers, Garcia has a written articles and editorials under a nom-de-plume.
[citation needed] Garcia graduated from Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Bilingual Education.
As a short story writer and essayist, Garcia won the Caracol Fiction Prize, in 1979, with the publication of Las Manos (June 23, 1979).
Poet Alurista published Garcia's The Harvest in the 1986 edition of Southwest Tales: A Contemporary Collection (Colorado State: Maize Press).
[2] After a ten-year hiatus, Garcia got back into fiction and published La Fantastica Curandera in Puentes (Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, ed.