Kenji Garcia is a Mexican-Japanese American novelist and former logistics analyst. Born in 1985 in Salinas, California, he studied applied mathematics at UC Santa Cruz and spent a decade auditing warehouse flows and port paperwork up and down the West Coast. His understanding of supply chains and the people who move them informs his place-rich suspense fiction.
Garcia is the author of the novels Night Parcel (2019) and Floodplain (2022), the latter a Lefty Award finalist. His short work has appeared in regional journals and crime anthologies, and he has taught community workshops on narrative structure for working adults. He lives in Portland, Oregon, with his partner and a retired search-and-rescue dog, and he volunteers with a neighborhood bicycle co-op.
