Gabriela Denise Frank

Gabriela Denise Frankâ€™s writing appears in Works (of Fiction) in Progress Journal, ARCADE and Bird’s Thumb. She is the author of “CivitaVeritas: an Italian Fellowship Journey,” a collection of essays about the unique Italian hill town of Civita di Bagnoregio. Her latest project is UGLY ME, a multi-media installation at the Jack Straw Cultural Center that explores the interplay between appearance and self-worth through distorted selfies, spoken prose and large-scale typographic collage. She lives and writes in Seattle.

Interviews

Gabriela Denise Frank

Jun 24, 2026

Memoir in Essays: A Conversation with Maya Jewell Zeller

“The books got weirder and more experimental as I explored the dissonance and impossibilities inherent in being both a domestic and financial provider in a body that never receives rest nor care.”
Interviews

Gabriela Denise Frank

Jul 17, 2025

Ultimately Unbounded: A conversation with Alina Ștefănescu

Mystic-heretic-philosopher-poet Alina Ștefănescu’s newest collection of poetry, My Heresies (Sarabande 2025) is a radiant skirmish of families and selfhood, countries and allegiances, rules and refusals, and the force with which fraught love (is there any other kind?) bends us to…
Other

Gabriela Denise Frank

Aug 26, 2015

A Novel Performance: Thirty Days in Seattle’s Central Library

Are writers really introverts, or do we hide our craft out of insecurity?

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Gabriela Denise Frank

Memoir in Essays: A Conversation with Maya Jewell Zeller

Ultimately Unbounded: A conversation with Alina Ștefănescu

A Novel Performance: Thirty Days in Seattle’s Central Library