Rosa Boshier González (she/her) is a writer living in Houston. Her fiction, essays, art criticism, and creative nonfiction have appeared in Catapult, Joyland Magazine, Guernica, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, Hyperallergic, Artforum, The New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Washington Post, among others. She received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, CUE Art Foundation, and the Fulbright Commission. She has taught writing, Latinx cultural studies, and art history at The California Institute of the Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, and Pacific Northwest College of Art, and formerly served as editor-in-chief of Gulf Coast Journal. She earned an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston.
Personal Essay & Memoir
“Two Thirds Terror, One Third Romance,” selected by Roxane Gay as winner of 2025 CRAFT Memoir Excerpt Prize
“Another casualty of extreme weather: A 20th-century treasure,” The Washington Post, August 29, 2024.
“Rabbit Heads,” Witness, Vol XXXVI No 1, Spring 2023.
“The Water’s Edge: On Laura Aguilar’s Photography,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2023.
“City of God,” Guernica, November 21, 2022.
“Who Gets to Travel to ‘Find Themselves’?” Catapult, May 13, 2021.
Fiction
“2nd Dad,” Georgia Review, Winter 2025-26 issue. Selected as fiction winner of the GR Prose Prize by Allegra Hyde
“Free to Be,” Joyland, September 19, 2023.
Art Writing
“David Hockney: Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2026.
“Interview with Mario Ayala on ‘Seven Vans’ at CAMHouston,” forthcoming April 2026 in Bomb.
“Gil Cuadros, Chronicler of AIDS in 1990s Los Angeles,” the New York Times, article anthologized in Overlooked, Ten Speed Press.
“Digital Skin: Outlasting Reality in Jacolby Satterwhite’s We Are in Hell When We Hurt Each Other,” Burnaway, March 9, 2023.
“The Elasticity of the Line in Troy Montes Michie’s ‘Rock of Eye,’ Glasstire, January, 2023.
“The Push and Pull of Visibility in Alia Ali’s ‘Blue Note,’ Glasstire, November 14, 2022.