Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit. She has authored five performance memoirs, most recently the déjà vu (2022) and In & Out of Place (2024). Her performance / writing can also be found in New Daughters of Africa, Kitchen Table Translation, Teaching Black, and A Mouth Holds Many Things. Her poems have appeared in Poem-a-Day, Bone Bouquet, and Wheatley at 250. Foundress of the Black Weirdo School, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts and in community. The aim of her work is to open up space.

Contributions: Black Body Amnesia after Rehearsal [Winter 2026]