G.G. Silverman

G.G. Silverman is a writer and visual artist who is also disabled, neurodivergent, and the daughter of immigrants. Her short fiction was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, the Iowa Review Award, and the Montana Fiction Prize, among other honors. Her most recent book project, THE BLOOD YEAR DAUGHTER was a finalist for the 2023 Sante Fe Writers Project Literary Awards and the 2023 St. Lawrence Book Award, shortlisted for the 2023 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, longlisted for the 2023 Steel Toe Books Prize, and a semifinalist for the 2024 OSU Non/Fiction Collection Prize. Her story, “I’m sorry, I tried, I love you,” was optioned for short film adaptation by director Goldie Jones and had its world premiere in Hollywood in June of 2022. Two of her short works also appeared in Bram Stoker® award-nominated anthologies and books listed on Tor Nightfire’s “All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2022.” Her two young adult novels have appeared on Amazon’s Top 10 and Top 100 in the Teen Humor category. The first was a finalist for the North Street Book Prize, and featured on Amazon as a Hot New Release.

She has been in residence at Centrum, Sou’wester, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods, and has received a grant award from 4Culture. She was also a finalist for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diverse Writers Grant.

She enjoys lifting up her writing community via teaching and coaching, and via her magazine, The Green Sheaf, where she loves discovering new writers.