Each year the Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture is given by notable creative writers and remembers Richard Hillary, the author of The Last Enemy, who was a student at Trinity. Cristina Rivera Garza is an author, translator and critic whose latest book, Liliana’s Invincible Summer, won the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir and Autobiography. A MacArthur Fellow from 2020 to 2025, she is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and head of the PhD program in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.