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Aja Gabel


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Aja Gabel's short fiction can be found in New England Review, New Ohio Review, Glimmer Train, BOMB, and elsewhere. Her lyric essay, "The Sparrows in France," appeared in Kenyon Review and earned her an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2015. She has taught fiction, non-fiction, and literature at the University of Virginia, the University of Houston, Sweet Briar College, and Pacific University, as well as at undergraduate creative writing conferences and community workshop organizations. She earned her BA at Wesleyan University, her MFA at the University of Virginia and has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston.
 


Genres: Science Fiction, Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   The Ensemble (2018)
   Lightbreakers (2025)
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The Good Parts (2026)
Evann Normandin
"The Good Parts is that rare book that both breaks your heart and puts it back together - a true romance, sweeping and specific, bittersweet and delicious. This is a propulsive story that examines memory, loss, and life-defining love, one that will linger in the mind long after the last page."
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All That Life Can Afford (2025)
Emily Everett
"If Pride and Prejudice's Elizabeth Bennet walked into The Great Gatsby, and they were all transported to the year 2009, that would be Everett's sparkling novel: a coming-of-age story of love, grief, friendship, and of course, money. Addictive, pleasurable, and always fun, All That Life Can Afford is also grounded and sincere, a modern twist on familiar classics that I devoured."
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How to Care for a Human Girl (2023)
Ashley Wurzbacher
"I was deftly entertained and deeply moved by the Battle sisters' journeys through love, lust, and loss. With tender writing, fully alive characters, and a story about womanhood, sisterhood, and salvation, this novel is a rare thrill, both charming and electrifying. I inhaled it."

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