Jul 27, 2021
Writers Who Eat: Laia Jufresa in Conversation with Bix Gabriel
This is still how I write, and this is also how I cook.
Bix Gabriel is a writer, teacher of creative writing, editor at The Offing magazine, 2021 Periplus Fellow, co-founder of TakeTwo Services, 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.
This is still how I write, and this is also how I cook.
Food, writing, they’re both offerings of building community and communication.
“I’m writing about my relationship with the land, and I need to get from sorrow to debt to gratitude.”
There are rules to who gets to live the American dream, and who doesn’t.
