Gavin Garza was raised in IBLP, a Christian cult. Today, he is a Best-of-the-Net nominated poet and memoirist studying English at UC Berkeley. He loves shawarma. Garza stays rooted to Fresno, CA.
Selected work
Fresno: Ars Poetica
The Cincinnati Review, 2026
Class Metaphor
The Ex-Puritan, 2026
Why I Still Can't Talk About IBLP
The Shore Poetry, 2025
Lorelai
ONE ART: a journal of poetry, 2025
Garden of the Son
Eucalyptus Lit, 2023
Broken Sonnet For My Situationship + 2 Poems
The /temz/ Review, 2025
How I Plan To Explain My Love For Professional Wrestling On The First Date
Maudlin House, 2025
Falling Out of a Delusionship to Silver Jews
MudRoom, 2023
Fresno: Eros
Berkeley Fiction Review, 2025
It's Our First Date and I Leave For College Next Week
Silly Goose Press, 2024
In McDonalds
BRAWL, 2025
Gavin Garza Will Have His Revenge On Fresno
JAKE, 2024
Two Poems
BULLSHIT LIT, 2024
For The 90 Year Old Sleeping In Her Pontiac
Bulb Culture Collective, 2024
At a Café 2/14
Five Minutes Lit, 2024
A Palette of Sanger, California
The Acentos Review, 2024
Parker
BULLSHIT LIT, 2024
Against Fresno Ennui
Flies, Cockroaches, and Poets, 2024
Leaving Fresno
Airplane Reading, 2024
The Panadero
Kings River Review, 2023
