Gurba has written a series of essays for "The Paris Review," each about a single word: "Striking" ", Salty," "Avuncular," as well as an article titled "The Mexican Bandit." She contributed an essay, "Laugh Lines," for a #MeToo focus of American Book Review. Gurba's Tropics of Meta review of the book American Dirt sparked controversy about cultural appropriation, the white gaze, racism, #ownvoices, and lack of diversity in the publishing industry. Gurba's debut novel "Dahlia Season" won The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction from Publishing Triangle, and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Dazed ranked "Dahlia Season" among their list of queer lit classics. Emily Gould described Gurba as "a new writer for the first time whose voice is different from any you’ve heard before and who you want to keep hearing forever." "The New York Times"' Meghan Daum calls "Mean" one of the five best memoirs of 2017, writing "Gurba has a voice as distinct and infectious as any I’ve discovered in recent years. “Mean” contains the usual childhood confusions and adolescent humiliations, but it’s also a meditation on race, class, sexuality and the limits of niceness." "New York Times"' Parul Seghal calls "Mean" “a scalding memoir that comes with a full accounting of the costs of survival, of being haunted by those you could not save and learning to live with their ghosts.” It also “adds a necessary dimension to the discussion of the interplay of race, class and sexuality in sexual violence." Reviews of Gurba's work appear "The Iowan Review", "The Paris Review," "The Lesbrary", "Rain Taxi", "BIG OTHER" and "Wing Chair Books". Jill Soloway blurbs for "Mean," describing Gurba's voice as, "an alchemy of queer magic feminist wildness, and intersectional explosion." Michelle Tea reviews "Mean" as a book that mesmerizes with prose, stating that, "there is no other writer like Myriam Gurba and Mean is perfection." Articles about her appears in "KQED", The Edge LB and "Confessions of a Boy Toy". Interviews with her appear in "The Los Angeles Review of Books," "OC Weekly", "MOLAA", "The Normal School", "Weird Sister" and "Otherppl".