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I am a writer, teacher, editor, and former chef.
My latest poetry book, Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life (2026), calls on the contemporary woman’s knowledge of how to craft a life apart from traditionally prescribed roles and suggests how we might etch new narratives to fit our awakening self-possession and determination. Our speaker flees to a small town in the Sierra Nevada to heal after ending a turbulent relationship spiked with physical violence and verbal abuse. Immersing herself in wild lands re-emerging after a devastating fire, she reassembles her own fragmented identity and learns how to embrace the physical world around her and accept a limitless way of processing her story.
My book Points in the Network (2025), speaks on what it means to be human and experience the complex feelings we do while simultaneously being in intimate connection with nematodes, growing grass blades, and decomposing leaf litter left to rot and fertilize our soils. The poems take an urban dive into the ecopoetic in a seasonal ride through childhood’s possibility, social injustice, love loss and gain, sex and its meaning, homelessness, death at our own hands and through life's wear, and the ever-springing hope that pumps from our veins as we wake up to what the microbes have to say.
Break Self: Feed (2024) 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 poetry book Too Many Seeds (2021) contains poetic meditations that explore food and nourishment in its complex glory as experienced through field, kitchen, and food factory work as well as more metaphorical ways of feeding the soul. The poems present intimate snapshots and explorations on how food comes to us and carefully considers how we tend to the earth, others we are in community with as well as ourselves, and what that means for our nourishment.
My memoir, Hive-Mind (2015), 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 available for purchase on Amazon.
My poetry manuscripts have been top finalists and semifinalists for the Trio House Press Louis Bogan Award, Word Works Tenth Gate Prize (2025) Codhill Press Guest Editor's Series (2024 and 2025), Catamaran West Coast Poetry Prize (2018, 2020, 2025) 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, Folio, Sandhills, the Dallas Review, and The American Poetry Review.
My fifth poetry collection, La Ruta es Clara, is forthcoming from Shanti Arts Press in fall of 2026.
I currently am in the process of looking for a publisher for my poetry manuscripts Our Insistence on Our Joy Bruises Us to Start Again and Configure Our Unfolding Exaltation, as well as a recent memoir.
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.
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 and shared my poetry at WordStock in Stockton and as well as at the Truckee Lit Crawl.
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 is 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)
Endorsements on Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life and my other books:
“‘I want you to see what I see,’ Gabrielle Myers writes in her book of ecopoetic lyrics, Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life. Drawing us into her resonant vision through deft lines that weave and leap across the page, Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life unfolds intricate patterns of the natural world and animal life, uncanny images in dream, moments of vivid violence and exultant beauty. This is a book of passionate attention and deep empathy.” -Margaret Ronda, author of Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End and poetry collections Personification and For Hunger
“The poems in Go Forth: Lose Yourself into Life, by Gabrielle Myers, are supple and courageous. They tell a story of letting go of an abusive relationship (‘his frothing mouth, his tongue spinning / ‘idiot’ ‘dumbass ‘retard’’) and forging a new life the way ‘Grasses shove themselves upward, / Verdant in their reach, gathering, rising.’ The world we can lose ourselves into is rich in sensory delights: ‘ceviche’s lime tang, peppers’ heat and singe, / cilantro’s floral roundness.’ It’s a delicious world that we are fortunate to enter.” -Lucille Lang Day, author of eleven poetry collections, including Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place, and editor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California
Juan Felipe Herrera, former U.S. Poet Laureate, 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.’…She manages a lush 21st century personal pointillism. Most lovely, most alluring.”
“In Gabrielle Myers’ lyrical new book, ‘Points in the Network,’ her pristine attention to nature is backgrounded by life's vicissitudes. But there is no self-pity here or navel-gazing. These are poems that celebrate the intensity of observation, the aspect of blooming and renewal that takes place without our intervention but is noticed by her loving, nurturing gaze. Read this book for its brave voice and delicate witnessing.” Maxine Chernoff, awarded the Carl Sandburg Award in Poetry, and author of Here (Counterpath, 2014); Without (Shearsman, 2012); and To Be Read in the Dark (Omnidawn, 2011), and many, many more.
“In these alliterative and crackling poems, Gabrielle Myers is alive to the bonanza of the natural world in all of its beneficent and imperiled beauty. In an apt, engaging way, Points in the Network, her third volume, reminds the alert reader that habitats and landscapes vividly and succinctly rendered in verse can also serve as viable cinema verité and soulful, revealing self-portraiture.” Cyrus Cassells, author of Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?
Brian Turner, author of The Wild Delight of Wild Things, writes of my collection Break Self: Feed: “With Break Self: Feed, Gabrielle Myers asks, ‘what will we make of us, here?’ The question lingers throughout the collection as the verses respond with the lessons of the earth, its cycles of growth and decay, ‘bound by light’s air, uncaged/ humming like wires set in motion.’ This is a collection of longing, becoming, the process of reformation and rebirth, and the search for wholeness as we sing ‘a tune to another narrative/ of us, me, you.’”
Please enjoy exploring links to my column, Hive-Mind, poetry books, published poems, essays, and interviews through my website: www.gabrielemyers.com
Happy reading and viewing!
-Gabrielle
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