Gabrielle lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and fat cat. She taught 4th and 6th grade for 13 years, both in public schools through Teach for America and in a Christian school, New Hope Academy. She now works as a reading tutor, curriculum-writer, and graphic design assistant. Gabrielle has enjoyed writing poetry and memoirs since elementary school and makes it a rule to not go far from home without a book to read. This is Gabrielle's first published book and first collaboration with her mother, Cheryl Darnell, illustrator of In Heaven.
