Receive a handwritten note from the author of The Ensemble.

Aja Gabel's debut novel, The Ensemble, from Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House was named a BOOKLIST “Top 10 First Novel.” It has appeared on The Millions Top 10 list, and PBS Books' Summer Reading 2018 list. Aja's short fiction can be found in New England Review, New Ohio Review, Glimmer Train, BOMB, and elsewhere. Her lyric essay, "The Sparrows in France," appeared in Kenyon Review and earned her an honorable mention in Best American Essays 2015. She earned her BA at Wesleyan University, her MFA at the University of Virginia and has a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston. 

Aja has been the recipient of awards from Atlantic Monthly and Inprint, as well as fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, where she was a fellow in fiction 2012-2013.