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Gayle Brandeis is the author most recently of Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss (Overcup Press.) Earlier books include Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperOne) and the novels The Book of Dead Birds (HarperCollins), which won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction of Social Engagement (judged by Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, and contest founder Barbara Kingsolver), Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt), which received a Silver Nautilus Book Award and was chosen as a state wide read in Wisconsin. Her most recent books include the poetry collection, The Selfless Bliss of the Body (Finishing Line Press) the memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother's Suicide (Beacon Press) and the novel in poems, Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Bathory Speak in Chorus (A Testimony) (Black Lawrence Press). Her essays, poems and short fiction have been widely published in venues such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Rumpus, Longreads, O, The Oprah Magazine, and more, and have received numerous honors, including a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award, the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award, the Columbia Journal Nonfiction Prize, and Notable mentions in The Best American Essays 2016, 2019, and 2020. She teaches in the low residency MFA programs at Antioch University, Los Angeles and University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. Gayle served as Inlandia Literary Laureate from 2012-2014 and was deemed a Writer Who Makes a Difference by The Writer Magazine. She lives in Highland Park, IL.
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