Gabrielle Daniels was born in New Orleans, but she spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been published, variously, in The Kenyon Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, and in the American Book Review. Her poetry appeared recently in PoetsReadingTheNews.com, and in Rigorous.com. She has been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook Farm, at Yaddo, at the Headlands Center for the Arts. In 2004, she was a recipient of a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant, and in 2005–2006, was Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. She was graduated from the University of California, Irvine with an MFA in English in 1999.