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Gayle Brandeis

Gayle Brandeis is the author of two novels, The Book of Dead Birds, which won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, and Self Storage, as well as a young adult novel, My Life with the Lincolns, and a writing guide, Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write. A former figure skater, she lives in Redlands, California, and has one child in college, one in high school, and one new baby.

Selected Work

Inlandia:
A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire

My Life with the Lincolns

No Place for a Puritan:
The Literature of California’s Deserts

Self Storage:
A Novel

The Book of Dead Birds:
A Novel