Aja Gabel is the author of Lightbreakers (coming November 2025) and The Ensemble, both from Riverhead Books.

Her prose can be found in 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 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 has written and developed several other screenwriting projects.

She currently lives and writes in Los Angeles.