The Floods

Gabriella Contratto (Los Angeles, California, USA)

Gabriella Contratto just received her MA in English (Creative Writing) from UH Mānoa, where she was also an intern for Mānoa Journal. She favors prose writing, and is particularly fond of speculative fiction, but her interests include Filipino culture/diasporic writing, LGBT+ communities, sports and Angeleno communities. Her short story “Wait” was published in The Under Review. She is currently working on a YA urban-fantasy novel set in Los Angeles featuring a kidnapping, a vegan aswang, and a french fry obsessed anito.