Gale Massey

Gale Massey is the author of "Rising and Other Stories" (April 13, 2021; Bronzeville Books), and "The Girl from Blind River," which received a 2018 Florida Book Award and was a finalist for the Clara Johnson Award.

Her work has been featured in Lambda Literary, CutBank, CrimeReads, Sabal, the Tampa Bay Times, Saw Palm and Tampa Bay Noir. Gale was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a fellow at Writers in Paradise, and has served as a panel judge for the Lambda Literary Awards. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in both fiction and nonfiction. You can visit her online at galemassey.com.