Bix Gabriel

Bix Gabriel is a writer, teacher of creative writing, editor at The Offing magazine, 2021 Periplus Fellow, occasional Tweeter, and seeker of the perfect jalebi.

She has a M.F.A in fiction from Indiana University-Bloomington, and her writing appears in the anthology A Map is Only One Story, on Longleaf Review, Catapult, Guernica, and Electric Literature, among others. Her debut novel, Archives of Amnesia, was a finalist for the 2021 PEN Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.

She was born in Hyderabad, India, and lives in Queens, NY.

Educational Background

• M.F.A., Fiction, Indiana University
• M.A., Media Studies, The New School

Teaching Interests

• Creative writing with a specialty in fiction, including flash fiction, and the personal essay
• Contemporary American literature by writers of color, so-called immigrant literature

Current Projects and Research Interests

• Old City, a collection of short stories all set in old cities.
• Writers Who Eat, an interview column.

Selected Publications

Should I Apply For Citizenship? Essay in “A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home”

Once, story in War, Literature & the Arts Journal

Where We Learn to Bang Our Heads Against A Brick Wall, flash fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly

Imagining Tunacorn and Skunkinex in ‘Immigrant Fiction,’ essay in Guernica

Not A Bar Story, flash fiction in Jellyfish Review