Gabrielle Bellot is a staff writer for Literary Hub. Formerly, she served as the Head Instructor at Catapult’s Classes department, as well as a Contributing Editor for the Catapult online magazine. Before the magazine department shuttered, she wrote a column for Catapult called “Wander, Woman,” which examined books, the body, memory, and more. One of these, “The Curious Language of Grief,” was a Notable essay in Best American Essays 2021. In 2023, she was a reader for the 10th annual Vulture Festival’s Feminist as F*ck event in Los Angeles, arranged by Roxane Gay and Amber Tamblyn, alongside Amber, R. O. Kwon, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, and Kirsten Vangsness. She is the author of My Year of Psychedelics: Lessons on Better Living (Everand, 2024), one of the inaugural works in Roxane Gay’s “Roxane Gay &” series. Bellot is also a certified transformational coach with a focus on psychedelic integration.
Gabrielle grew up in the Commonwealth of Dominica. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Shondaland, Guernica, Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, The Cut, Slate, The Los Angeles Review of Books, VICE, Electric Literature, The Normal School, TOR.com, and many other places. Her essays have appeared in a number of anthologies, including Body Language (2022), Women Talk Money (2022), Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement (2019), Can We All Be Feminists? (2018), and We Wear the Mask: 15 True Stories of Passing in America (2017). Her work has been translated into a variety of languages, including Portuguese, Turkish, and Italian. She is the recipient of the 2016 Poynter Fellowship from Yale and also holds a Legacy Fellowship from Florida State University. Bellot holds both an MFA (2012) and a PhD (2017) in Fiction from Florida State University, and currently teaches classes at Catapult. She has been a panelist and guest lecturer at events put on by PEN America, NYU, The Library of America, and others, and has appeared on the Tin House podcast Crafting with Ursula, focused on the themes of Ursula Le Guin’s work. Formerly a Brooklyn girl, she now lives in Queens, NY, with her wife.
Her writing tends to focus on global literature, LGBTQIA identities, literary history, exile, the Caribbean broadly, and what it might mean--at least for the day you ask her--to navigate the world as a multiracial transgender woman of colour. Beyond that, she's also a self-confessed lover of astronomy, the ocean, Calvin and Hobbes, Hayao Miyazaki's films, psychedelics, nature, Sonic the Hedgehog games, coffee, and much, much more. She is working on a collection of essays, as well as her first novel. She is represented by Melissa Danaczko at Stuart Krichevsky.
She also does freelance editing and manuscript evaluation for creative nonfiction, essays, articles, speeches, pitches, short fiction, and novels, as well as other types of projects upon request. To request proofreading, editorial services, and/or a critique of a manuscript, please contact her via the Contact page.