
Gabriella Souza is a Portuguese-American writer whose work has appeared in North American Review, The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, New South, and the Best Small Fictions 2022 anthology, among others. She is the recipient of a 2025 Ruby Artist Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, her work has been supported by Disquiet International, The Community of Writers, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the San Miguel Writers’ Conference. She received her MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, where she was the recipient off an Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, a dog, and two cats.