Bio

G.G. Silverman is an award-winning author of speculative and literary short fiction and poetry who lives just north of Seattle. She is also disabled and the daughter of immigrants. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Women in Horror anthologies Not All Monsters and Chromophobia from Strangehouse Books, and was a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, among other honors. She was also a finalist for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diverse Writers Grant. Her work has also appeared in Cemetery Gates Media’s A Woman Built by Man, Psychopomp, Speculative City, Corvid Queen, So To Speak, The Iron Horse Literary Review, ellipsis, The Seventh Wave, Molotov Cocktail, and more. Her short story, “I’m sorry, I tried, I love you,” was optioned by writer/director Goldie Jones for short film adaptation, which had its world premiere in Hollywood at the DWF:LA Film Festival in June of 2022 and continues to tour the film festival circuit. Two of her short works also appeared in anthologies listed on Tor Nightfire’s All the Horror Books We’re Excited About in 2022.

She holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, and has completed a writing certificate program at the University of Washington, as well as the Art as Sacred Act program at the Institute for Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies, with Jungian psychoanalyst Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, the international best-selling author of Women Who Run With the Wolves. She is also an alumna of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, the Tin House Winter Writer’s Workshop, and the New York Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore College, and has workshopped with Alexander Weinstein, Allegra Hyde, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Ted Chiang, Amy Hempel, and Joyce Carol Oates, respectively. She has been awarded residencies at Centrum, in Port Townsend, Washington, Sou’wester Artist Residencies, in Seaview, Washington, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods, in Shelton, Washington.

A former improv performer, she loves empowering her writing community via engaging classes. She teaches privately as well as at ClarionWest and Edmonds College. She also enjoys mentoring, coaching, and editing. She believes that stories can change the world.

G.G.’s complete CV, including a list of her awards, can be viewed here.