Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is a writer and teacher. She is the author of Clear Water (Flatiron Books, 2026), Are We Ever Our Own (winner of the 2022 BOA Short Fiction Prize) and The Sleeping World (Touchstone-Simon & Schuster, 2016).

She has received fellowships and awards from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay Artists in Residency, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, and Bread Loaf. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, New England Review,The Georgia Review, The Common, One Story, and elsewhere.

Gabrielle holds a BA from Brown University, an MFA from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and a PHD from the University of Georgia. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She grew up in Wisconsin and lives in Maryland with her family.