Gabriella Souza is a Portuguese-American writer and editor based in Baltimore.
She began her writing career as a journalist and won local and national awards writing for newspapers and magazines in Florida and throughout the Southeast. She came to Baltimore to become the arts editor at Baltimore magazine. She received her B.S. in journalism from the University of Kansas, where she was editor in chief of The University Daily Kansan. She received MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, where she was the recipient off an Eloise Klein Healy Scholarship.
Gabriella’s work has appeared in the Best Small Fictions 2022 anthology, North American Review, The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, New South, Litro, Essay Daily, Emerge, Lunch Ticket, Cleaver, and the Potomac Review, among others. She has received fellowships and scholarships from Disquiet International, The Community of Writers, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and won the 2020 San Miguel Writers’ Conference Writing Contest.
She muses on the Substack Bella Do, is co-host and co-creator of the podcast Chick Flicks with Gabby & Amy, and is at work on a novel.
She lives in Baltimore with her husband and their dog and two cats.