Gabriella Souza is a Portuguese-American writer 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 is the recipient of a 2025 Ruby Artists Grant, created by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and inspired by Ruby Lerner's pioneering work with Creative Capital, which merged funding with advisory support for artists. Additional honors include fellowships and scholarships from The Community of Writers, Disquiet International Literary Program, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as the 2020 San Miguel Writers’ Conference Writing Contest award.
She muses on the Substack Bella Do and in her spare time, she and her husband run a Brazilian jiu jitsu school and she co-organizes the monthly Pro-Democracy Dance Protests.
She is represented by Rossano Trentin of the The Trentin Agency.