Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer, editor and teaching artist from the Great Lakes (Waawiiyaataanong) currently living in the Gulf Coast (Bulbancha). They are a 2020 Poetry Project Fellow and a 2016 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow. Gabrielle is the sole operator and practitioner of the The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, a non-traditional, non-hierarchical learning space for the poetically inclined. To date the Seminary has taught over 350 poets and artists. Gabrielle currently sits on the board of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. Their debut poetry collection, Dereliction (2022) is currently available via The Song Cave.