About Gabe Montesanti Books
Gabe Montesanti (she/they) is the author of Brace for Impact: A Memoir (The Dial Press), which chronicles her time skating for Arch Rival Roller Derby. She is also a former drag performer. She earned her bachelor's in studio art and mathematics from Kalamazoo College and her MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She has attended artist residencies at Sundress Academy for the Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Storyknife Writers Retreat in Homer, Alaska. Raised in Michigan, she now lives in St. Louis.
