Gale Massey - Florida Author Spotlight

Gale Massey is the first author in our Wordier Than Thou Author Spotlight Series. She has attended Wordier events as a literary fan and as a featured author. We are delighted to showcase her work.

Get to Know Gale

Gale Massey is the author of Rising and Other Stories (Bronzeville Books, 2021), and the novel, THE GIRL FROM BLIND RIVER (Crooked Lane Books), which received a 2018 Florida Book Award. 

Her work has been featured in Salon, Writer’s Digest, 83 Degrees, CutBank, SawPalm, Tampa Bay Noir, Sabal, and the Tampa Bay Times. 

Gale was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers Conference and a fellow at Writers in Paradise, and has served as a panel judge for the Lambda Literary Awards. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her fiction and nonfiction.

Read Her Work

My new book, Rising and Other Stories, is a collection of short stories. The Girl From Blind River was published in 2018 and is a crime-fiction novel. 

Learn more about her book release and current works on her author's website. 

Learn About Her Florida Connections

The literary scene of St. Petersburg is dynamic and vital and offers a variety of support to writers. I attended Writers in Paradise at Eckerd College for many years and learned much about writing and publishing there. 

The Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading brings writers and readers together every year and is a cornerstone of the scene. 

In just a year, Tombolo Books has become an integral part of the city's literary scene with their events and curated selections for adults and children. 

Keep St. Pete Lit and Wordier Than Thou provide tremendous support to writers at all levels with events, readings, and classes. 

I could go on but look at how much is going on in the Tampa Bay area. It's a great place for writers to live.