Spark Artist

Gabriel Urza was raised in Reno, Nevada, where he worked as a public defender for five years before pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. He is the author of the novels The Silver State (Algonquin, 2025) and All That Followed (Henry Holt & Co., 2015), as well as the novellas The Last Supper (Center for Basque Studies Press, 2021) and The White Death: An Illusion (Nouvella, 2019). His fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, The London Guardian, Salon, Politico, Slice Magazine, Guernica, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from Literary Arts, the Kellogg Foundation, and the Black Mountain Institute, and he was a 2022 Fulbright Scholar to Peru. He lives in Hood River, Oregon, and is currently the director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Portland State University.