Eileen G’Sell

Eileen G’Sell (she/her) is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. She was born in St. Louis and earned a BA at Knox College, an MA at the University of Rochester, and an MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. Her first full-length volume of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018 by Gold Wake Press.

G’Sell’s poetry has been published in Poetry magazine, Fence, DIAGRAM, Oversound, The Rumpus, and The Boston Review; her essays have been published in The Baffler, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Current Affairs, and Jacobin. She serves as movie critic for The Hopkins Review and makes frequent contributions to Hyperallergic, Reverse Shot, and The Riverfront Times. In 2023, she won the Rabkin Prize for excellence in arts writing..

G’Sell teaches writing and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis.