https://gabrieladenisefrank.com/about daily 0.75 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607892275043-PI4ZPRTE63BHDUBGQJNH/civita_sunset.jpg Bio - It begins with place. My work is rooted in place—the lake lands of the American Midwest, the Southwestern desert, the forested shores of the Pacific Northwest—and lands urban, rural, wild around the world. I am grateful to make my home on the unceded ancestral lands and waters of the Dxʷdəwʔabš (Duwamish) and Bəqəlšuł (Muckleshoot) peoples. As an artist, I’m a scavenger and a mudlarker. My creative methods include pattern work, earthwork, (de)composition, (re)assembly, grafting, transplanting, constraint, and collage. As a body, my projects explores the intersection of spirituality, science, philosophy, myth, and architectures of faith. A Jack Straw Writer, Tin House and Breadloaf Sicily alum, and alumna of Artist Trust’s EDGE Development program for literary artists, my creative practice is supported by grants, residencies, and fellowships from 4Culture, Burien Library Centrum, City of Burien, City of Edmonds, the Civita Institute, Invoking the Pause, Jack Straw, Marble House, Mineral School, Seattle Public Library, Shunpike, Vermont Studio Center, and Willapa Bay AIR. My writing and visual at appear in BOMB Magazine, True Story, Epoch, DIAGRAM, Northwest Review, The Normal School, The Rumpus, and elsewhere; winner of the Fern Academy Prize for the Essay, my writing has twice been deemed notable by Best American Essays. The author of How to Not Become the Breaking (Gateway Literary Press, 2025) and Pity She Didn’t Stay ‘Til the End (Bottlecap Press, 2022), I serve as creative nonfiction editor of Crab Creek Review. I’m a passionate advocate for the em dash, the serial comma, full coverage of butters, jams, spreads, and condiments on toast, and showing up early as a gesture of respect and care. https://gabrieladenisefrank.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906274686-VF4EJB73KT47TJEPKRLL/Frank_G_0013_12+%5Bstorefront%5D+OKA+Mushr.jpg Home Photo: Kevin Scott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906282299-YKRQFGPB3MXT9NGGJ1IL/Frank_G_0011_08_%5Bstorefront%5D+OKA+Mushr.jpg Home Photo: Joe Iano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906317916-N2ZKGJKM8HSZRR1E081I/Frank_G_0010_06_Frank_G.jpg Home Photo: Nick Spang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906331681-OHS96AL5V4Y5RAWTR2T2/Frank_G_0013_09_Frank_G.jpg Home Photo: Nick Spang https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906348529-PYA7A57JNIHCZZTP633T/04_Frank_G.jpg Home Photo: Melissa Thompson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906365149-B442LX9I3XOOIAKER3JZ/08_Frank.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906376333-PVJOY4OAROBW82V0YKUN/09_Frank.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906394357-KU16YD59760OG7WLDZVI/06_Frank_G.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906480462-KVXA3M0I85OR49CWCYN1/tonys_garden.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906505261-UIAKIDZRWCAFZJHTPA8I/civita_lookingup.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906657745-4JRKZ09HIPLDK04DAPHU/15+%5Bstorefront%5D+OKA+Mushroom+Farm_KS.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906888911-ZMJ96V6135DZ5TVIGX05/10+%5Bstorefront%5D+OKA+Mushrrom+Farm_JI.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607906976744-O8X75L770Y1VT7IJ6PBD/JsuqiNxwS0az0nQkp00VLg.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1607907084224-WIIXE79O1D6LQFCIZWE3/DpHzDYvpSlSqeKvoRhkNBQ.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1608247748604-DV2G4JLC1X2YJ5MK50WP/19.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/74ca12ef-6806-4c59-ab0a-608431c810fc/Gabriela+Frank+-+sepia+lowres.jpg Home - Gabriela Denise Frank is a writer, editor, and educator. As teaching artist, I believe in the power of literary art as a tool for transformation and free expression. Words written, spoken, and sung help us understand our past, our present, and the radical vulnerability of being connected to everything—including each other. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/f1ddfa10-2fe1-446c-8cfb-df2cd6c6dbbc/Blue+Banners.jpg Home - Selected for the City of Edmonds’ On the Fence temporary public art program, Downstream/ Upstream pairs two concrete poems “(yubəč / chinook)” with torn-paper collages that celebrate chinook salmon, a keystone species in the Pacific Northwest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/3f45a0ac-cbea-4642-9109-9368c3089fad/Green+Banners.jpg Home - The visual-text-sonic literary art installation unfolds across four banners displayed on a city-owned fence at Frances Anderson Center Playfield in Edmonds, WA, from September 2024 to February 2025. Readings of the poems were recorded and mixed at Jack Straw Cultural Center as part of Jack Straw’s Artist Support program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/d6ee10b5-cbe7-4bf8-8f36-4d3eea6d397d/4+Banners-1.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/e4ca8f76-c0f7-4891-b23d-b44cae53b5c2/Gabriela.Frank.HarrisonWest.jpg Home As part of Shunpike's Storefronts program, I installed a multi-media short story made of visual art, text, and audio recording in a South Lake Union storefront window. Image credit: Jo Cosme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/d3a750cf-8e74-4bdd-8c94-e256223e8fe3/STOREFRONT-panel2-GFrank.jpg Home “The Martian’s Job, After All, is to Interpret the World” considers relationships we hold dear: with nature, each other, and the planet we share with all creatures. Following its 2022 Seattle premiere, STOREFRONT STORY moved to Burien in 2023 and Seattle’s Uptown neighborhood in 2024. Listen to the story here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/b072cea3-4033-45ed-8d4a-9867e7c0db3d/IMG_4845.jpg Home - The City of Bellingham’s utility box artwork program seeks to reinforce a sense of place and enhance the identity of urban districts while adding beauty and interest to the streetscape. Two of my designs, which began as mixed-media collages, were selected for display. In Search of Nectar is located at State & Maple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/8ed044f8-6df4-4211-ad59-8e5ebab103a9/IMG_4875.jpg Home - How Do I Look, Darling? is located at State & Chestnut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/c86c5307-395b-4609-bc87-5f75229acc29/Crab+Box+2.jpg Home - This public art program supports the vitality and attractiveness of SeaTac, Washington, by wrapping utility boxes in art to deter blight, graffiti, and vandalism. The Oracular Glows Inside the Ordinary, draws upon surreal imagery to create a playful dreamlike world of fanciful juxtapositions: a flower with lips smoking a cigarette, a donkey reading a book, floating bridges, a ball bouncing through time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/7d53364b-db18-499f-b12c-f01a8a30bf6f/Crab+Box+4.jpg Home Midlife Conditional As Crustacean Morphology pairs a crab-shaped concrete poem with an original ink rendering. The text explores aging through the metaphor of molting, a phenomenon that echoes the way humans morph and change with age. Listen to a recording produced at Jack Straw Cultural Center as part of their Artist Support program. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1608247218440-23SS8NGGGDRC9C9998JK/postcard_image+copy.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1608247447479-JNYF2G38WQN9YE377XBO/stanchion.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/4022d03d-13de-4378-b097-f9ae3a68f4a5/gwriting_reduced.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/07a7484f-4e08-4a5c-bc16-2eaf284944e7/ANP4_Spang.JPG Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/8aead20d-a0eb-4125-8222-f67921d3edac/ANP5_Frank.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1608247548731-M9G3RH2OIWLQ84M757HM/01_%5Bstorefront%5D+OKA+Mushroom+Farm_KS.jpg Home Photo: Kevin Scott https://gabrieladenisefrank.com/writing-classes daily 0.75 2026-03-23 https://gabrieladenisefrank.com/contact-me daily 0.75 2025-12-11 https://gabrieladenisefrank.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/57ea382c-a47c-4ba6-a06c-9a962f8a31e3/GFrank-Cover.jpg Writing - How to Not Become the Breaking This collection of short fiction, dedicated to the beasts I’ve loved and the monsters I’ve been, is linked by collision, fate, and the mythology we use to explain daily life. A motley crew of magical creatures, orphans, and antiheroines is each called to question: what is love, what is inevitable, what is worth fighting for, and is fighting the answer? HTNBTB was published by Gateway Literary Press in February 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1643840840833-CA394QZL95HGWC0RDKHI/Screen+Shot+2022-02-02+at+2.23.46+PM.png Writing - Pity She Didn’t Stay ‘Til the End A remote island cabin. The back seat of a vintage convertible Mustang. A theme park with the tallest, fastest roller coaster in the world. An octopus tank at an aquarium. The Washington coast after a bomb cyclone. This chapbook of micro prose draws on a mix of the real, the unreal, and the surreal. Collectively, these stories linked by female characters who disappear or transform—sometimes to assert or discover their identity, sometimes in pursuit of (or by) love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1608250126756-0DIYPMG8LUMO70HSJNR3/civitaveritas.jpg Writing - CivitaVeritas: An Italian Fellowship Journey A Pacific Northwest writer on a fellowship journey explores the layers where people, architecture, food, language, and culture come together over time to tell a story. In this collection of essays, the author explores human connection and the experience of place in Civita di Bagnoregio, Italy, a unique hill town that dates back to Etruscan settlements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd67c15fd756c1ce4da4946/1608248618938-EMYY1ET6JFQFZH2I42VW/2C2C3E02-A652-4B14-ACFB-E86F560E3A89_4_5005_c.jpeg Writing - UGLY ME If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, where does self-worth reside? This was the central question behind UGLY ME, a multi-media sound installation that explored the interplay between appearance and self-worth through commercial fashion photography, selfies and spoken prose. 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