Gabrielle Stecher Woodward is a writer, critic, & award-winning educator. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. Her work interrogates the stories we tell about creative women, and her writing has appeared in publications including American Book Review, Harvard Review, Woman’s Art Journal, and Film Quarterly.

She is a Lecturer at Indiana University Bloomington, where she teaches in the Department of English and the Hutton Honors College. Recent courses include Woman, Image, Myth: The Mediated Afterlives of Marilyn Monroe, Joan Didion and the Art of Prose, and Once Upon a Time in the Hollywood Novel. Her teaching emphasizes digital creativity, multimodal storytelling, and forms of public writing.