About Me
Gabrielle LaFrank is a nonfiction writer, poet, dog mom, and a graduate of San Jose State University. During her time at SJSU, she served as President of the Poets & Writers Coalition and self-published a children’s book about her open adoption titled Born From My Heart. She also released mantra for the lonely–an eclectic poetry chapbook–in 2020.
With every article and piece of copy, Gabrielle aims to uplift and educate readers in the most accessible and lighthearted ways. You can her stories on websites such as PawTracks, PetHelpful, Rocky Kanaka, Elite Daily, and Seventeen.
Outside of writing, Gabrielle enjoys crafting, attending hockey games, and quality time with her dogs, Carter the Cockapoo, Pepper the ChiPoo, and Jack the Husky/Malamute.
Words have always fascinated me. As a child, I’d repeat a word over and over at different speeds until it didn’t sound like a real word anymore. I dissected each sound into the way my mouth moved when I said it. I rewrote reality inside my young mind, and I’m still discovering bits and pieces of it today.
As a student, I devoured literature: the Roman and Greek classics, the Harlem Renaissance, Steinbeck, anything I could get my hands on, really. Even Shakespeare, whose plays I originally found dry and convoluted, became mind-bogglingly clever after just a few lectures.
I try my best to incorporate what I’ve learned through reading and discussion in everything that I write. I am grateful to have had a versatile education in which I studied both journalism and creative writing at a diverse and innovative school. Though I’m a decade into my professional writing career, I’ll never stop looking for new ways to digest and communicate what I learn.
I am Gabrielle LaFrank, the Weaver of Words.