Gabby Rivera

Gabby Rivera is a Latina American writer, speaker and storyteller.[1] She is best known for her young adult novel Juliet Takes a Breath and writing Marvel’s new comic "America".[2] She is also an editor at Autostraddle, an online magazine for, about and written by LGBTQIA+ women, occasional trans men, and non-binary people. Rivera has also written poems and short stories. She is an activist and youth mentor through her work as the Youth programs manager at GLSEN.

Juliet Takes a Breath is Rivera’s debut novel. It is about a gay Latin woman navigating these identities, which the character shares with the author. The novel is set in 2003 when the main character, Juliet is 19, Rivera was the same age at this time. Gabby Rivera and her character are both from the Bronx, and Rivera now lives in Portland, Oregon where Juliet is for the majority of the novel. Rivera says that the novel developed, gained depth, and became the story Rivera wanted to put out there, as her own sense of identity and beliefs developed.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rivera, Gabby. "About the Book". Gabby Rivera. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  2. ↑ Betancourt, David (2017-03-08). "Marvel hired Gabby Rivera, a queer Latina writer, for its queer Latina superhero. That matters". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-04-22.
  3. ↑ Portillo, Nayeli. "Novelist Gabby Rivera on Creating a Young Adult Novel With a Queer, Teenage Latina Protagonist". Remezcla. Remezcla. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
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