About — Aja Gabel

Enjoy these cool pics of my parents both after (pic 1) and before (pic 2) what they did was legal in all states. Happy Loving Day.

If you’re a white person or non-black POC and you’re not talking about this, upset about this, doing something, donating somewhere, reading, educating your fellow “well-meaning” white friends, and/or talking to your children a

when you show up for the Babysitters Club meeting but everyone is such a Claudia.

I wrote this! And I’m okay now— partly because I wrote this. Thx to @oprahmagazine and @booksandelena for giving it a home. cc @glory_anne who helped me out, too. Link in bio.

May I suggest these two go on a long date in your brain? Heartbreak, art, breakdown, grief, parents, California, east coast, wandering, finding, losing—STRAY and WRITERS & LOVERS have helped me feel like writing again during this weird time

#Repost @chadhartigan ・・・
Our premiere was going to be next week so to celebrate I wanted to drop this piece of art I had made that I really love. Custom painting by the genius #jarekpuczel, whose work inspired me greatly and features in the film. De

In 2011 I invented an aquarium scene in my dumb brain for these two characters to remember they loved each other even though a scary virus was spreading across the globe and now well um among other things THAT STORY IS A MOVIE. Brilliantly directed b

Aja Gabel's debut novel, The Ensemble, is out now from Riverhead Books.

Her prose can be found in the The Cut, LA Times, Buzzfeed, BOMB, and elsewhere. She studied writing at Wesleyan University and the University of Virginia, and has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston.

Aja has been the recipient of awards from Inprint, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Her short story “Little Fish” was adapted into a feature film, and she is developing several screenwriting projects in TV and film.

She currently lives and writes in Los Angeles.