She holds a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from CSU Long Beach, where she studied the poetry of Sylvia Plath. Her most recent work centers around her maternal uncle’s disappearance from Guatemala in the early 1980s, and is situated at the intersection of migration, archive, and memory. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Acentos Review, Kweli, Plath Profiles, Third Woman Press 3’s Inaugural Anthology, and elsewhere. Her website is www.gabrielaramirezchavez.com.