# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/myriam-gurba
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:58:43.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/myriam-gurba"
name: "Myriam Gurba"
slug: "myriam-gurba"
description: "Myriam Gurba is an American writer, critic, and visual artist. She is the author of the memoir Mean (2017), named by The New York Times as one of the best memoirs of 2017 and included by O, The Oprah Magazine among the \"Best LGBTQ Books Ever,\" and the essay collection Creep: Accusations and Confessions (2023), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MyriamGurba.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.27
  momentum:             4.484967320261437
  historical:           4.617748
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lesbrains"
    handle:    "lesbrains"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/alt_myriam_gurba666/"
    handle:    "alt_myriam_gurba666"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.myriamgurba.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriam_Gurba"
    title: "Myriam Gurba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "میریام گوربا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriam_Gurba"
    title: "Myriam Gurba"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%AE_%E0%A8%97%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BE"
    title: "ਮਰੀਅਮ ਗੁਰਬਾ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%85_%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7"
    title: "مریم گربا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23419099"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump