Essays and criticism
“A Village as Small as a Thimble,” The London Magazine, May 2026.
“Helen, by Frank,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2026.
“Things That Disappear,” Stinging Fly, March 2026.
“Becoming a Woman Who Screams,” Los Angeles Review of Books, June 2025.
“The Children’s Bach,” Harvard Review, January 2024.
“The Translations of Seamus Heaney,” Harvard Review, December 2022.
Fiction
“The Badia,” Harvard Review, issue 63. Pushcart Prize 2026.
“Saudade,” AGNI, issue 101.
“Picnic at Hungry Mother,” Harvard Advocate, summer 2022 issue.
Science and health
“Menstrual tracking apps and concerns about data privacy,” The Lancet Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Women’s Health, April 2026.
“Dissecting back-alley abortion rhetoric,” The Lancet Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Women’s Health, January 2026.
“Deseperación and impotencia: birth on the US–Mexico border,” The Lancet Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Women’s Health, November 2025.
“A brutal take on reproductive healthcare in Georgia,” The Lancet Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Women’s Health, October 2025.
About + contact
Gabrielle McClellan is a writer from Virginia. After receiving her BA in English from Harvard University in 2024, she now lives and works in London. Her short fiction received the 2026 Pushcart Prize, and in 2022 she received the Edward Eager Memorial Fund Prize for fiction. She previously reported on endometriosis as a Carol K. Pforzheimer Fellow, and she is currently a contributing writer at The Lancet Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Women’s Health.
Contact: mcclellangc [at] gmail [dot] com