Selected Poetry
Feeling East
Gayle has been deeply moved by the generous viral response to her plum poem, and is in awe of how it's been translated around the world and adapted into visual art, choral pieces, and film. She's so grateful to know the poem is giving people hope when they've most needed it.
Marching Orders
The Plum You’re Going to Eat Next Summer
Selected Nonfiction
She survived in the wild against all odds. I took her class to learn how
We Wanted to Split Up.
OK Cupid Had Other Ideas
My shadow son: A stranger insisted he was my child for more than a decade
Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
Selected Fiction
The Navel Gazer
The Concrete Slides of
Northern California
The First Meeting of the People of Unintentional Color Support Group
A Long Time
Selected Reviews
‘The Bright Hour,’ by Nina Riggs and ‘The Art of Death,’ by Edwidge Danticat
‘Survivor Café,’ by Elizabeth Rosner
The Dance of Grief: On Amelia Gray’s “Isadora”
Fear Not: On the Biggest Manhunt in California History