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Gabrielle Daniels

Also known as gtdanyelz or gab was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and has lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was educated at San Jose State University, where she earned a BA in broadcast journalism. She later received an MFA in English at the University of California, Irvine. She is interested in current problems in broadcast media, American and European history, cultural studies, black women's issues, and of course, past and comtemporary American, black and European literature. For several years, she was a book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. She is an alumna of the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Montana Artists’ Refuge, and Yaddo. She has taught writing at the Whidbey Island Writers Conference in Washington State, the Myrna Loy Center for the Performing and Media Arts in Helena, Montana, and at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared variously in Sable, The Kenyon Review and in the collection, Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry, edited by Charlotte Watson Sherman. She was one of the poets featured in This Bridge Called My Back: Works by Radical Women of Color edited by the late Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga. Currently, she lives in Madison, WI, where she is completing a novel, Sugar Wars.''''''