Gabriel Arquile­vich is the author of Writ­ing for 100 Days (Fairview), which was named Cathy Duffy’s Top 101 Picks for home­school­ers. His poet­ry, pub­lished wide­ly, has been nom­i­nat­ed for a Push­cart Prize. His debut upper mid­dle-grade work of fic­tion, Grape!, is fea­tured in Melis­sa Hart’s anthol­o­gy: Bet­ter with Books: 500 Diverse Books to Ignite Empa­thy and Encour­age Self-Accep­tance in Tweens and Teens (Sasquatch 2019). He lives in Mein­ers Oaks, CA.