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Thank you for visiting my website!
I am a writer, teacher, editor, and chef.
Please read new poetry book, Break Self: Feed, published in 2024 by Finishing Line Press: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/break-self-feed-by-gabrielle-myers/
Break Self: Feed 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 first poetry book, Too Many Seeds, is also available from Finishing Line: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/too-many-seeds-by-gabrielle-myers/
Too Many Seeds contains poetic meditations that explore food and nourishment in their complex glory as experienced through field, kitchen, and food factory work as well as more metaphorical ways of feeding the soul. Discover the invisible food economy which many of us are not aware of. From being down in the fields with leaves and roots, to the gassed, sanitized, and inspected world of a dried fruit factory, to the end result of kitchen and catering work, Too Many Seeds takes us on a journey with food production, particularly focused on what this means in America.
My memoir, Hive-Mind, 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 published by Lisa Hagan Books available for purchase on Amazon.
My third poetry book, Points in the Network, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in October 2025 and my fourth poetry collection, Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life, is also forthcoming from Finishing Line.
My poetry manuscripts have been top finalists for the Codhill Press Guest Editor's Series (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, The Atlanta Review, San Francisco Public Press, Fourteen Hills, Evergreen Review, pacificREVIEW, Connecticut River Review, Catamaran, Edible East Bay, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cathexis Northwest Press, and is forthcoming from the American Poetry Review (in March 2025).
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.
In addition, I write articles on the international farm-to-fork movement, documenting food traditions and sustainable practices in locations such as Hawaii, Portugal's Alentejo, and Italy's Puglia.
I am currently looking for publishers for my two poetry manuscripts, La Ruta es Clara and Our Insistence on Our Joy Bruises Us to Start Again and seeking a home for my international farm to fork column.
Please enjoy exploring links to my poetry book, memoir, poems, essays, interviews, YouTube cooking channel, and seasonal recipe blog through this website.
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 are 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)
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 where I enjoy teaching composition, creative writing, and literature courses.
Please view this video poem from my collection Break Self: Feed (which is now published): https://youtu.be/vE3IuCrZldQ?si=VYtkcKosmP0Qlm_s
This is a video from my collection Too Many Seeds:
https://youtu.be/VttN-9GAZg0
View this video reading from Hive-Mind: https://youtu.be/bs80u-lcqrU
Check out my YouTube channel, which shows you how to make amazing sauces, learn basic cooking techniques, and discover how to create delicious seasonal gluten and dairy free recipes: https://youtu.be/G2U8inKHSs0
Here is my listing in Poets & Writers Directory: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/gabrielle_myers
I have experience as a book, article, and newsletter editor.
I also lead small group writing workshops to help unlock the stories that must be told but are often lingering beneath the surface of our awareness.
Feel free to reach out to me for freelance projects via the contact form on my website.
Happy reading and viewing!
-Gabrielle