Gabrielle Harbowy 

Gabrielle Harbowy has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, from her entry into the field as a pricing analyst at Scholastic, to becoming a full-time editor and part-time writer. A third-generation reader of fantasy and science fiction, a love for the speculative is in her blood. Gabrielle was Managing Editor at Dragon Moon Press for a decade, has worked with award winners and international bestsellers, and is passionate about elevating the authors around her. A three-time published novelist, short story author, and award-nominated anthologist, Gabrielle has spoken, given workshops, and run D&D and Pathfinder games at numerous conventions. She is a member of SFWA, IAMTW, and the LGBTQ+ Editors Association.

Gabrielle's passions include LGBTQ+ inclusivity, music, travel, tabletop roleplaying games, crocheting and needlepoint, tattoo art, everything Finnish (except lutefisk), outer space, and the Oxford comma. Her favorite genres including science fiction, fantasy, paranormal mysteries, and genre-bending speculative fiction. She loves reading diverse books, characters that come alive on the page, and tropes that are turned on their heads. She would like to see queerness, neurodiversity, and disability represented and normalized, both in the world and on the page. ​

Some books/series Gabrielle loves, narrowed down with difficulty! 

• The Protectorate Series (Velocity Weapon, Chaos Vector, Catalyst Gate) by Megan E. O'Keefe. 
• A Dominion of the Fallen series (The House of Shattered Wings, The House of Binding Thorns, The House of Sundering Flames) by Aliette de Bodard.
• The Wormwood Trilogy (Rosewater, The Rosewater Insurrection, The Rosewater Redemption) by Tade Thompson. 
• The Broken Earth series (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky) by N.K. Jemisin. 
• The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson. 
• The Red Trilogy (The Red, The Trials, Going Dark) by Linda Nagata. 
• The Locked Tomb Trilogy (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, etc) by Tamsyn Muir. 

• Empire of Exiles by Erin M. Evans. 
• Vita Nostra by Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey.  
• Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee. 
• The Embroidered Book by Kate Heartfield.
• Six of Crows (etc) by Leigh Bardugo.
• Magic of the Lost series (The Unbroken, The Faithless) by CL Clark.
• The Serpent Gates series (The Unspoken Name, The Thousand Eyes) by AK Larkwood.