Eileen G’Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. Her first full-length volume of poetry, Life After Rugby, was published in 2018 by Gold Wake Press. Her second book of poetry, Francofilaments, was published in 2024 by Broken Sleep Books. Her first book of nonfiction, Lipstick, joins Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series in early 2026.
G’Sell’s poetry has been published in Poetry magazine, Fence, 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 frequently reviews film and art for Hyperallergic and Reverse Shot. 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.