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I am a writer, teacher, editor, and chef living in Northern California.
My latest book, Break Self: Feed, published by Finishing Line Press, sings of our ecosystems, their human threats, and possible cures based on nourishment and barrier fracture. In eco-poetic lyrics, borderlands and boundaries evolve in reference to a deep connection with the natural world that surrounds us with its seasonal shifts and the impacts of climate change. We never know when abundance and satiation will come. We spend so much time preparing for devastation and desiccation, so much energy we waste planning our ruin. Break Self: Feed repurposes that drive, energy, and time towards preparing for our proliferation, our unfurling, our living into our potential. Dig into the soil, feel fine-webbed roots working out their networks of nutrient pull and harvest. Let’s mimic the roots’ motion to gather, see what we can get out of the perfect soil, set ourselves on expansion, lengthening, growth.
My poetry book Too Many Seeds, published by Finishing Line Press, contains poetic meditations that explore food and nourishment in its complex glory as experienced through field, kitchen, and food factory work as well as more metaphorical ways of feeding the soul. The poems present intimate snapshots and explorations on how food comes to us and carefully considers how we tend to the earth, others we are in community with as well as ourselves, and what that means for our nourishment.
My memoir, Hive-Mind, published by Lisa Hagan books, details my time of transformation and awakening on an organic farm. When one is brought close to clover leaves, crabgrass roots, okra's itchy hairs, 10,002 bees buzzing, and the friendship and loss of an amazing individual, one permanently changes and the past rearranges itself. Please explore the links to and about my memoir, which is available for purchase on Amazon.
My poetry manuscripts have been top finalists for the Codhill Press Guest Editor's Prize (2024), Catamaran West Coast Poetry Prize (2018 & 2020) and the 42 Mile Press Poetry Award (2014). My poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, San Francisco Public Press, Fourteen Hills, Evergreen Review, pacificREVIEW, Connecticut River Review, Catamaran, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and is forthcoming from the American Poetry Review.
I currently am in the process of looking for a publisher for my two poetry manuscripts, La Ruta es Clara and Our Insistence on Our Joy Bruises Us to Start Again, as well as a cookbook on seasonal grilling and a recent memoir.
Since the beginning of 2022, I have been the Farm to Fork Columnist for Inside Sacramento magazine. Every month, I offer a local perspective on the farm-to-fork movement and interview farmers, producers, fish mongers, ranchers, and non-profit organizers who are transforming our approach to food.
For over 14 years, I worked as a cook and chef for top San Francisco Bay Area restaurants and catering companies. I have taught English and writing at UC Davis, Saint Mary's College of California, Diablo Valley College, Sacramento City College, Yuba College, and Las Positas College. I have led writing workshops for the Pacific Writing Conference at the University of the Pacific, Word Spring in Chico, and San Joaquin Valley Writers, and participated in a panel at the Great Valley Bookfest. I am currently a tenured professor of English at San Joaquin Delta College.
Juan Felipe Herrera writes the following about my poetry: “Gabrielle Myers does not shy away from a kind of post-mod naturalism, where we can taste things, see things, and even – I dare say – touch their “opalescent crisp skin.” Although world-stuff and social-stuff shifts and is disassembled in the scenic constructions of her poetics, she manages a lush 21st century personal pointillism. Most lovely, most alluring.” (California Writers Exchange contest, Poets and Writers, 2009)
Please enjoy exploring links to my column, Hive-Mind, poetry books, published poems, essays, interviews, YouTube cooking channel, and seasonal recipe blog through my website.
Happy reading and viewing!
-Gabrielle
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