About
Gahl Pardes is a writer from the Negev Desert. Her work has received recognition and/or support from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Henfield Prize for Fiction (runner-up), the Balch Prize for the Short Story, and others. She holds an MFA in creative writing (Poe/Faulkner Fellow in fiction) from the University of Virginia where she taught writing, literature, and brand storytelling. A '23-'25 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is at work on a novel and a short story collection.