Bio
G.G. Silverman is an artist, creative coach, magazine editor, and award-winning author who lives just north of Seattle. She is also disabled and the daughter of immigrants.
As a practicing artist, she is deeply immersed in botanical drawing, sculpture, and ethereal fine art photography. Her work is in private collections both nationally and internationally, and has been featured in Rattle poetry magazine and The Tishman Review. She sells her art directly via her eponymous gallery located in Woodinville, WA.
As a writer, G.G.’s short fiction has gathered accolades and has appeared in award-nominated anthologies. Her forthcoming short fiction collection was most recently a finalist for the 2023 Sante Fe Writer’s Project Literary Awards and the 2023 St. Lawrence Book Award, shortlisted for the 2023 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize, and longlisted for the 2023 Steel Toe Books Prize.
Her short fiction has also been a finalist for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Award for feminist writing, and the Speculative Literature Foundation’s Diverse Writers Grant. 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, a writing certificate from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an editorial certificate from Emerson College in Boston. She is also certified from 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 a mentee of the internationally-renowned fine arts coach Jessica Serran, and is 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. She has workshopped with literary luminaries like Alexander Weinstein, Allegra Hyde, Sequoia Nagamatsu, Ted Chiang, Amy Hempel, and Joyce Carol Oates. 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 creative community via engaging classes. She teaches privately and has taught at ClarionWest and Edmonds College. She also enjoys mentoring, coaching, and editing her magazine, The Green Sheaf. She believes creativity can change the world.