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.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
- M.F.A (Fiction), Indiana University-Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana (May 2018)
- M.A. Media Studies, New School for Social Research, New York (December 2002)
- M.A. Communication, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (April 1999)
- VONA (Voices of Our Nation’s Arts) Miami Workshop with Chris Abani (January 2013)
- Gotham Writers’ Workshop: Fiction 101 (Jan-April 2011), Advanced Fiction (Sept – Dec 2012)
- Travel Channel Academy Certificate in Video Journalism (July 2007)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Instructor, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
- Fall and Spring 2018
Two-semester first-year seminar course, “Coming to America: What is Immigrant Literature?”.
Future Faculty Teaching Fellow, Butler University, Indianapolis, IN
- Spring 2018
First-year seminar course in critical thinking and literature in conjunction with Butler University’s Visiting Writers Series
“Introduction to Creative Writing: Prose” — fiction and creative nonfiction — to undergraduate students at the 200 level. - Fall 2017
“Reading For Writing” a class on examining literature for craft to MFA students.
“Introduction to Creative Writing: Prose” — fiction and creative nonfiction — to undergraduate students at the 200 level.
Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- Spring 2017
“Introduction to Creative Writing: Fiction” 200-level undergraduate class. - Fall 2016
“Literary Editing and Publishing”200-level undergraduate class. - Fall 2014 – Spring 2015
Discussion sections of “Introduction to Creative Writing” — fiction and poetry — 100-level undergraduates.
Lifelong Learning Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- Spring 2018
“Eat, Memory,”Six-week personal essay writing to ‘lifelong’ students. - Fall 2017
“Write Every Day? Developing A Writing Habit through Short Fiction,”creative writing (prose) to ‘lifelong’ students. - Spring 2017
“In A Flash – 1,000 Word Fiction” to ‘lifelong’ students. - Fall 2016
“Telling My Tale: Memoir as a Form of Storytelling,” memoir writing to ‘lifelong’ students. - Spring 2016
“The Food of Fiction: A Workshop to Cook up Stories” to ‘lifelong’ students.
Creative Writing Instructor, Girls Inc., Bloomington, IN
- Spring and Fall 2015
Creative writing workshops for students in grades 3-5 in an after-school program.
Associate Director, Indiana University Writers’ Conference, Bloomington, IN
- September 2015 – July 2017
Co-managed the Indiana University Writers’ Conference (IUWC) for two years, including selecting faculty, promoting the event, managing interns, and logistics.
Enumerate Editor, The Offing magazine
- January 2020 to present
Read, select, and edit essays, stories, poems, and hybrid work utilizing the list form for The Offing magazine.
Fiction Editor, The Offing magazine
- April 2015 to December 2020
Read, select, and edit fiction for The Offing magazine.
Contributing Editor, Boulevard magazine
- January 2018 – November 2018
Read, select, and edit fiction and nonfiction for Boulevard magazine.
PUBLICATIONS
- 2018
Not A Bar Story, flash story in JellyFish Review, an online literary journal dedicated to flash, April 2018
Q&A with Leesa Cross-Smith, author of “Little Doves” in The Offing (Medium), March 2018 - 2017
We Need Diverse Books, But We Also Need Diverse Reviewers, essay, Electric Literature, August 2017 - 2016
Q&A with Nghiem Tran, author of “Trespassing” in The Offing (Medium), November 2016
When We Learn to Bang Our Heads Against A Brick Wall, flash fiction, SmokeLong Quarterly, March 2016 - 2015
Editor, Strengthening Memory, Justice and Human Rights in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere, a book of essays on public memorialization. Published by the Amnesty Commission of Brazil, November 2015
MFA Year 2, Week 1, essay in Guernica magazine, September 2015
Beyond Solidarity: A Woman of Color in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement, essay in Hyphen magazine, September 2015 Old City, short story in Day One, Amazon.com’s literary journal, July 2015 The Power of PEN: The Award to Charlie Hebdo Isn’t About Freedom of Expression, essay in Hyphen magazine, May 2015 No Whitewash: Interview with John Keene, author of Counternarratives, The Offing (Tumblr), May 2015 - 2012
Sites of Conscience: Past to present, memory to action – chapter in Museum of Ideas: Commitment and Conflict, published by Museums Etc., September 2012 Past to present, memory to action – chapter in Landscapes of Memory, published by Space Matters, February 2012
AWARDS
- 2018
Finalist, -1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest, judged by Lesley Nnekh Arimah, Midway Journal, October 2018
Awardee, Butler Cohort of the CIC Consortium for Instructional Excellence and Career Guidance, August 2018
Recipient, Asian American Studies Graduate Student Travel Award, April 2018 - 2017
Awardee, Indiana University, Future Faculty Teaching Fellowship, January 2017 - 2016
Recipient, Asian American Studies Graduate Student Research Award, April 2016
Recipient, IU Grant-in-Aid of MFA Project, April 2016 - 2015
Winner, Ross Lockridge Jr. Award in Creative Writing, April 2015
Semi-finalist, PRISM International Fiction Prize 2015 - 2012
CDC Injury Center’s General Public Award for co-directing and co-writing Sh*t Men Say to Men Who Say Sh*t to Women on the Street video, with over 375,000 views
Finalist in the Fiction category of the Summer Literary Seminars’ 2012 SLS Unified Contest - 2005
Finalist for Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies’ Lange-Taylor Prize, 2005 - 2004
Winner, Best Experimental Film Award at the New York Women of Color Film Festival for directing and editing “Puff” – a documentary film, 2004
RECENT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- 2018
Moderator: “’Over There’ Over Here: Women Writing War” War, Literature & the Arts Conference, Colorado Springs, September 2018
Moderator and Panelist: “Who Are We Writing For? Who Are We Writing Toward?” AWP2018 Association of Writer & Writing Programs Annual Conference, Tampa, March 2018 - 2017
Discussion Facilitator, Reading Group on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s “The Refugees”, Indiana University, October 2017
Participant, Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) Retreat, May 2017
Speaker, Asian American Studies Program Recognition Reception, Indiana University, April 2017
Presenter, “Writing Guantánamo: Literature, Memory, & Justice” at 2017 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, “Words Matter: Politics, Rhetoric, and Social Justice,” at Indiana University, Bloomington, March 2017
Presenter, “Picturing Guantánamo: How Do We See A Place & People” at 11th Annual Indiana University Landscape, Space, and Place Conference, Indiana University, March 2017
Panelist, “Rising Up: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, & Sikh communities in post-9/11 America”, Indiana University, February 2017 - 2016
Speaker, “The Meaning of Words,” International Education Week, Indiana University, November 2016
Tabling and Attendee, AWP2016 Association of Writer & Writing Programs Annual Conference, Los Angeles, March 2016
Presenter, “The Meaning of Food in The Novel The Meaning of Words” at 2016 Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Digesting Discourses: Taste, Appetite, and Consumption, Indiana University, March 2016