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Gayle Brandeis

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Gayle Brandeis (@gaylebrandeis) is the author, most recently, of the novel in poems, Many Restless Concerns (Black Lawrence Press), longlisted for the Bram Stoker Award, and the memoir The Art of Misdiagnosis (Beacon Press). Earlier books include the poetry collection The Selfless Bliss of the Body (Finishing Line Press), the craft book 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 Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, and Maxine Hong Kingston, Self Storage (Ballantine), Delta Girls (Ballantine), and My Life with the Lincolns (Henry Holt BYR), which was chosen as a state-wide read in Wisconsin. Her poetry, essays, and short fiction have been widely published in places such as The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, O (The Oprah Magazine), The Rumpus, Salon, Longreads, and more, and have received numerous honors, including the Columbia Journal Nonfiction Award, a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award, Notable Essays in Best American Essays 2016, 2019, and 2020, the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award and the 2018 Multi Genre Maverick Writer Award. She was named A Writer Who Makes a Difference by The Writer Magazine, and served as Inlandia Literary Laureate from 2012-2014, focusing on bringing writing workshops to underserved communities. She teaches at Antioch University and Sierra Nevada University.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Laraine Herring

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • June 3, 2021
“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”
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What to Read When You Want to Fall in Love with Novels in Verse

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • February 14, 2020
Gayle Brandeis shares a reading list to celebrate MANY RESTLESS CONCERNS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “We Were Alive”

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • January 27, 2020
They say she bathed in our blood.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Gayle Brandeis’s The Art of Misdiagnosis

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • November 14, 2017
After my mom hangs herself, I become Nancy Drew. I am looking for clues, for evidence. Answers.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Thunder, Thighs

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • September 19, 2015
Over one third of the women in my survey had been called “Thunder Thighs” at some point in their life. Many were still haunted by this. None of them interpreted “thunder” to mean “power.
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Where I Write #23: The House My Mother Built

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • September 12, 2012
That’s what I want to do as I write: break through the varnish my mom helped me shellack over my truth, the stains we both used to deny our imperfections, hide our dark places.
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Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • May 23, 2012
No one comes in to check on me, no one asks if I’m okay after I finally emerge, embarrassed, my eyes completely red. They all love me, but not enough to forgive what I’m about to do.
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