The inaugural winner of How To Academy’s essay prize, Gabriela Denise Frank is a literary artist whose essay A Self She Can Continue Living With is both a deeply personal and highly relatable account of the profound awfulness of modern corporate working life.
Created in collaboration with Fern Press and Tortoise Media, the Fern Academy Prize was created to discover and nurture unpublished writers who shine a light on the universal human experience and speak to the times we live in. Gabriela Denise Frank won the 2024 prize with A Self She Can Continue Living With: a tragicomic depiction of the middle manager’s lot in corporate America and the soul-crushing absurdities of the white collar world. In this episode of the podcast, Gabriela reads the essay in full and offers further reflections on art, life, and writing.
