An active chef, gardener, writer, and teacher, Gabrielle has spent decades making connections between the food we cultivate and eat and the spiritual and health implications of these choices. For over fourteen years, Gabrielle worked as a cook and chef for San Francisco Bay Area restaurants and catering companies. She graduated from the California Culinary Academy in 2001 and cooked at Oliveto Restaurant, Boulette’s Larder, Palladio, and The Metropolitan Club. From 2007-2015, she worked as a chef and cook for fine-dining catering companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and Napa, including SpringLoaf Catering, Living Room Events, Fork and Spoon, Melissa Teaff, and Componere Fine Catering. In 2006, Gabrielle apprenticed at Tip Top Produce, in Vacaville, CA, an organic farm that supplied top farm-to-table restaurants and farmers’ markets with organic heirloom vegetables. In her 20’s, interned at Monticello’s Center for Historic Plants and worked at several garden nurseries specializing in rare and heirloom plants. She currently lives on a small farm and ranch where she and her partner grow a variety of organic vegetables and practice sustainable and regenerative ranching of chickens, sheep, and pigs. Gabrielle’s memoir, Hive-Mind, details her time of love, awakening, and tragic loss on an organic farm. Her first poetry book, Too Many Seeds, was just released by Finishing Line Press: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/pr... Her poetry manuscripts have been top finalists for the Catamaran West Coast Poetry Prize (2018 & 2020) and the 42 Mile Press Poetry Award (2014). Her poetry has been published in The Adirondack Review, San Francisco Public Press, Fourteen Hills, Evergreen Review, pacificREVIEW, Connecticut River Review, Catamaran, Edible East Bay, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and is forthcoming from the Atlanta Review. Gabrielle is a Professor of English at San Joaquin Delta College, a community college in California’s central valley. Her teaching skills make her able to explain complex cooking techniques in simple, accessible ways. Access links to her memoir, poetry book, published poems, essays, articles, interviews, YouTube cooking channel, and seasonal recipe blog through her website: www.gabriellemyers.com More about Patti at www.PattiConklin.com