14 Facts About Myriam Gurba

Myriam Gurba Serrano was born on May 14,1977 and is an American author, editor, and visual artist.

Myriam Gurba is best known for her true crime memoir, Mean, and her review, in Tropics of Meta, of American Dirt.

Myriam Gurba's book Creep was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism and won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction.

Myriam Gurba toured the United States with Sister Spit, a "lesbian-feminist spoken-word and performance art collective" in 2011 and 2015.

Myriam Gurba has exhibited art works at the Museum of Latin American Art and The Center Long Beach.

Myriam Gurba is the author of various chapbooks including Wish You Were Me, Sweatsuits of the Damned, and River Candy.

Myriam Gurba is the Editor-in-Chief of Tasteful Rude, an online magazine published by The Brick House Cooperative.

Myriam Gurba has written for Time, The Paris Review, American Book Review, ColorLines, and Believer Magazine.

Myriam Gurba's debut novel Dahlia Season won The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction from Publishing Triangle, and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

Myriam Gurba's fourth book Creep was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for criticism and won the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction.

In 2019, O, The Oprah Magazine called Myriam Gurba's work Mean one of the "Best LGBTQ Books of All Time".

Reviews of Myriam Gurba's work appear The Iowa Review, The Paris Review, The Lesbrary, Rain Taxi, BIG OTHER and Wing Chair Books.

Myriam Gurba was born in Santa Maria, California, United States in 1977.

Myriam Gurba identifies as queer and bisexual and as of 2016 lived in Long Beach, California.