Julian S. Garcia has been involved in Chicano literature since the late '70s when the Chicano journal, Caracol, had its offices on W. Commerce St. in San Antonio, Texas. In l985, Julian S. Garcia became one of its Associate Editors. He was also an Associate editor of ViAztlan, an international journal of ideas and philosophy.
Best known for his witty short stories that populated the pages of Caracol, ViAztlan, and Saguaro, Julian S. Garcia was graduated from Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, Texas, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Bilingual Education. He continued his education with a Master's degree in Bicultural-Bilingual Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio in l977. He then studied English Literature at Southwest Texas State University.
As a short story writer and essayist, Julian S. Garcia won the Caracol Fiction Prize, in l979, with the publication of Las Manos.{June 23,1979} In l984, the article, Writing through Suffering won another prize in ViAztlan Vol. 2, No. 7.{April, 1984}} In 1985, the publication of his essay, The New Age of Chicano Music was included in a special edition of ViAztlan, No. 3., No. 2. His story, Don Cheno's Icehouse subsequently appeared in ViAztlan(March, 1985).
The critically acclaimed poet Alurista published Garcia's The Harvest in the l986 edition of Southwest Tales: A Contemporary Collection (Colorado State: Maize Press).[1] In 1986 the University of Arizona published his story, El Viaje in its biannual journal, Saguaro.[2]
After a ten-year hiatus, Julian S. Garcia got back into fiction and published La Fantastica Curandera in Puentes (Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi, ed.Jesus Rosales). His current projects include With Open Eyes and Tejas Love: A Chicano romance novel.
He has finished a collection of thirty-three stories,Harvest Moon. His children's literature project is entitled, Pepito, Lucy, and El Perico.