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, work that seeded his place-rich suspense and crime fiction about infrastructure, migration, and the people who keep systems moving.
Garcia is the author of Night Parcel (2019), Floodplain (2022), a Lefty Award finalist, and Prism: An Inventory (2025). 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.
