A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet

A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet:
My Grandfather's SS Past, My Jewish Family, A Search for the Truth

Built around dramatic interviews in four countries, filled with original scholarship, mesmerizing in its lyricism, A Guest at the Shooters' Banquet is a history and family memoir like no other, documenting “the holocaust by bullets” with a remarkable quest as Gabis returns again and again to the country of her grandfather's birth to learn all she can about the man she thought she knew.

Bloomsbury Publishing
The Wild Field

The Wild Field

Gabis shows how she …has helped build a house that is inhabitable, welcoming, hard-earned, and durable — a place where tears, time, and flesh are real, not to be run away from, a place where all of a woman's muscle and dream are required. …It's a form of equality our greatest poets, whether men or women, have striven for through the ages.

Don Share, Boston Review
Portable MFA in Creative Writing

Portable MFA in Creative Writing

Why do poems move us? Not because the writer is explaining something to us, but because the writer is creating…showing us a part of their world. Sensory detail, images that capture and evoke your experience, are the primary tools you have to convey to the reader the feel of your life as a physical, feeling, thinking, dreaming being… Often the search for the right details allows the poet to stumble into the true heart of the poem.

Poetry / Chapter Four