Author
ABOUT The Author
Georgette Gouveia with a copy of a bust of Alexander the Great from the Archaeological Museum of Pella in Greece. Photograph by Bob Rozycki. Courtesy WAG magazine.
Georgette Gouveia writes "The Games Men Play" blog and novel series, about the power dynamic in culture, which includes the new “Riddle Me This,” (JMS Books), a historical thriller that tells the backstory of Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot,” the development of the opera and a modern East-West romance that parallels it. It’s a tale of longing — to create, to have our creations live in the world, to belong to something larger than ourselves. But mostly it’s a story about storytelling — particularly how a story changes over time and drives perception — subjects that have driven Gouveia’s life and work as a writer.
Other books in the series, which embrace many genres, include the psychological thriller “Burying the Dead”; “Seamless Sky,” a family revenge drama set around the events of 9/11; “Daimon: A Novel of Alexander the Great”; the the 2018 Lambda Literary Awards finalist “The Penalty for Holding” and “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group), which like “Penalty” is a male/male romance that may evoke for readers the homoeroticism of Annie Proulx’s “Brokeback Mountain” as well as the works of Mary Renault, Patricia Highsmith and Anne Rice.
They’re available here, on Amazon and from JMS Books, as are the short stories “The Glass Door,” about love in the time of the coronavirus, and “After Hopper,” about a young woman’s quest for self-determination in wartime New York.
What threads these works are the characters – individuals who test their rivalries and relationships, navigate their public and private identities and journey through love and loss.
A longtime, award-winning cultural writer and luxury editor, Gouveia is the 2023 recipient of ArtsWestchester’s President’s Award for career achievement and a reporter for Westfair Communications Inc., a group of business journals and newsletters.. From 2011 to 2022, she was editor-in-chief of Westfair’s WAG magazine, which won six New York State Press Association Awards as a top magazine. and for which Gouveia won awards from the YWCA and Folio Women in Media. Prior to joining WAG, she was an Associated Press Award-winning senior cultural writer with Gannett Inc. As a nonfiction writer, Gouveia is the author of “The Essential Mary Cassatt” (Wonderland Press/Harry N. Abrams Inc.) and several art historical essays. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied with short story writer Grace Paley.
Gouveia is also a lover of history, ancient Greek culture, classical singing, long walks, yoga and weightlifting. She lives in New York, where she enjoys caring for her home. Contact her here.