Gabriella Souza lives and works as a writer and editor in Baltimore. She won the 2020 San Miguel Writers’ Conference Writing Contest and recently completed the MFA program at Antioch University in Los Angeles, where she received an Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship. In 2019, she won a Marilyn Moss Rockefeller and James S. Rockefeller, Jr., Scholarship at the Maine Media Workshop in Rockport, Maine. She began her writing career as a journalist and won local and national awards for her work that has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Brine Literary, USA Today, The Virginian-Pilot, and Baltimore magazine, among others.