Baker Artist Portfolios

Gabriella Souza is a Portuguese-American writer whose work has appeared in North American Review, The Adroit Journal, The Rumpus, New South, and the Best Small Fictions 2022 anthology, and elsewhere.

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.

Gabriella began her writing career as a journalist and won local and national awards writing for newspapers and magazines in Florida and throughout the Southeast, including USA Today, The Virginian-Pilot, The News-Press, Distinction magazine and 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.

She lives in Baltimore with her husband and their dog and two cats. She is at work on a novel.