Gabrielle Bellot is a staff writer for Literary Huband the Head Instructor at Catapult, where she is also a Contributing Editor. In addition to this, she writes a column for Catapult called "Wander, Woman," which examines books, the body, memory, and more. One of these, "The Curious Language of Grief," was a Notable essay in Best American Essays 2021.
Gabrielle grew up in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Shondaland, Guernica, Slate, Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Cut, VICE, Electric Literature, The Normal School, TOR.com, and many other places. Her essays have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Body Language (2022), Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement (2019), Can We All Be Feminists? (2018), and We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America (2017). Her work has been translated into a variety of languages, including Portuguese, Turkish, and Italian. She is the recipient of the 2016 Poynter Fellowship from Yale and also holds a Legacy Fellowship from Florida State University. Bellot holds both an MFA (2012) and a PhD (2017) in Fiction from Florida State University, and currently teaches classes at Catapult. She has been a panelist and guest lecturer at events put on by PEN America, NYU, The Library of America, and others. Formerly a Brooklyn girl, she now lives in Queens, NY, with her wife.
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