Gabrielle Selz was born in Pomona, California, and grew up in the New York City art world and the bohemian world of Berkeley, California in the 1960’s & 1970’s. Her father, Peter Selz, was a Professor of Art History at the University of California at Berkeley and the former Curator of Painting & Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.  Her mother, Thalia Selz, was a short story writer and teacher.  Following her parents' divorce, she lived for a number of years in the utopian artists housing project, Westbeth, surrounded by people with huge appetites and wild imaginations, who practiced “life as art”.  Ms. Selz has used these often challenging and dramatic experiences as inspiration in her writing, exploring the ramifications of growing up in the outrageous, uncontained and yet transformative world of art.

Ms. Selz has published in magazines and newspapers including, MORE Magazine, The New York Times, Newsday, and Fiction. She writes regularly on art for The Huffington Post and has been anthologized in Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s. She received her MFA from City College in New York.

Gabrielle Seiz is a 2009 fellow in Nonfiction Literature from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  

At present, Ms. Selz lives in Southampton, NY with her son Theo and their feisty, little dog, surrounded on three sides by water.