Gabriel Teodros is a musician and writer from South Seattle who first made a mark with the group Abyssinian Creole, and reached an international audience with his critically-acclaimed solo debut album Lovework. He has been setting stages on fire ever since, all across the US, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Ethiopia and South Africa; often in combination with workshops on creative writing, music, history, science fiction and media literacy.

His latest album, From the Ashes of Our Homes, opens with a reflection on the day Teodros and his spouse Ijeoma Oluo fled from an actual house fire, and expands to a full-length meditation on the loss of home and safety so many of us experienced these last few years as a result of wars, the pandemic, the climate catastrophe, and more - and how do we build something new from the ashes of all of our collective homes.

In 2020, Teodros launched the show Early on KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, which he hosted 5 days a week for the next 3 years, eventually passing the show on to make more time for his own music, a new podcast entitled Worldwide Underground, and to co-teach a class in the University of Washington’s Honors department titled Lovework, an Unfinished Syllabus, named for Teodros’ 2007 LP and inspired by the work of bell hooks.

In 2015, Teodros made his speculative fiction debut with a story published in Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, and in 2016 he graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop for Speculative Fiction. 

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