Gwynne Garfinkle is the author of a collection of short fiction, Sinking, Singing (Aqueduct Press, 2024), a novel, Can't Find My Way Home (Aqueduct Press, 2022), and a collection of stories and poetry, People Change (Aqueduct Press, 2018). Her poem "the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force" was nominated for the 2026 Rhysling Award long list.
Gwynne's work has appeared in numerous publications, including FUMPTRUCK (Anonymous, ed.; Written Backwards, 2025), Worlds of Possibility (Rios, ed.; Worlds of Possibility, 2023), The Deadlands: Year One (Tobler, Taaffe, and Gilmore, ed.; Psychopomp, 2023), Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People (Lobel and Shainblum, ed.; Ben Yehuda Press, 2022), Musings of the Muses (Vassallo and Vassallo, ed.; Brigids Gate Press, 2022), Climbing Lightly Through Forests: A Poetry Anthology Honoring Ursula K. Le Guin (Lemberg and Bradley, ed.; Aqueduct Press, 2021), Mythic Delirium: Volume Two (Allen and Allen, ed.; Mythic Delirium Books, 2015), The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk (Wallace, ed.; Robinson, 2015), Strange Horizons, Planetside, Uncanny, Escape Pod, Fantasy, Apex, Not One of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, GigaNotoSaurus, Kaleidotrope, Penumbric, Tales to Terrify, Mermaids Monthly, and The Cascadia Subduction Zone.
Gwynne lives in Los Angeles. For more about her work, visit her website: gwynnegarfinkle.com.