Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes
Research Expertise
Creative Writing
Latinx Studies
Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes’ most recent novel is Clear Water (Flatiron Books, 2026). She is also the author of the short story collection Are We Ever Our Own, winner of the 2022 BOA Editions Short Fiction Prize, and the novel The Sleeping World (Touchstone-Simon & Schuster, 2016). Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, One Story, The New England Review, The Georgia Review, Cream City Review, Acentos, The Common and elsewhere. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay, Millay Colony, Anderson Center, Lighthouse Works, and the Blue Mountain Center.
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Publications
Are We Ever Our Own
"Are We Ever Our Own" is a powerful collection of stories tracing the intertwined lives of women from the Armando Castell family, moving between Cuba and the United States.
Author/Lead: Gabrielle Luci…
Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.
Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.
Linked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women’s bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?
Are We Ever Our Own
Moving between Cuba and the U.S., the stories in Are We Ever Our Own trace the paths of the women of the far-flung Armando Castell family.
Author/Lead: Gabrielle Luci…Related but unknown to each other, these women are exiles, immigrants, artists, outsiders, all in search of a sense of self and belonging. The owner of a professional mourning service investigates the disappearance of her employees. On the eve of the Cuban revolution, a young woman breaks into the mansion where she was once a servant to help the rebels and free herself. A musician in a traveling troupe recounts the last day she saw her father.
Linked by theme and complex familial bonds, these stories shift across genres and forms to excavate the violence wreaked on women’s bodies and document the attempt to create something meaningful in the face of loss. They ask: who do we belong to? What, if anything, belongs to us?