About

Myriam Gurba wishes she was a little bit taller. She wishes she was a baller. She wishes she could stop plagiarizing Skee Lo. Okay, for reals, I, Myriam Gurba, am a short Mexican/Polack (Molack) who writes. I wrote Dahlia Season (Manic D Press) and Wish You Were Me (Future Tense Press). You can find more of my writing in books like Life as We Show It (City Lights) and the forthcoming Ambientes (University of Wisconsin Press). I've read my work onstage with Sister Spit and to my parents in their living room. Both audiences cringed. I'm descended from a short line of unsuccessful poets and hope I'm man enough to carry on the tradition. My favorite things in the world are playing hide-and-seek with my pet rabbits, eating wind-forming vegetables, and surprising my long-time lover with wet willies.