Dennis Garcia’s book Marine, Public Servant, Kansas; The Life of Ernest Garcia has been named a finalist the Twentieth Annual International Latino Book Awards. Garcia is nominated in the Best Biography category.

The International Latino Book Awards are produced by Latino Literacy Now, a nonprofit organization co-founded in 1997 by Edward James Olmos and Kirk Whisler. A full list of finalists is available here.

Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on September 21, 2019, in Los Angeles.