Gabriella's profile
I am a writer of fantastical realism exploring the emotional depths of the human experience, an award-winning journalist, and a dance activist. My work blends the surreal with the intimate to examine how people survive, transform, and find meaning in uncertain worlds, and has appeared in USA Today, Popsugar, North American Review, Litro, Cleaver, Memoir Land, and the Best Small Fictions 2022 anthology, among others.
I am a 2025 Ruby Artist Grants recipient and a regular contributor to The Rumpus interviews section. My honors include fellowships and scholarships from The Community of Writers, Disquiet International Literary Program, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as the 2020 San Miguel Writers’ Conference Writing Contest award. I hold an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, where I received the Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship.
I live in Baltimore, where my husband and I run a Brazilian jiu jitsu school and I co-organize the monthly Pro-Democracy Dance Protests.
