[13] She is also the author of various chapbooks including Wish You Were Me (Future Tense Books, 2011), Sweatsuits of the Damned (RADAR Productions, 2013), and River Candy (eohippus labs, 2015).

[15][16][17][18][19] Gurba's review of the book American Dirt in Tropics of Meta sparked controversy about cultural appropriation, the white gaze, racism, #ownvoices, and lack of diversity in the publishing industry.

Since 2017, she and fellow author MariNaomi have been hosting an advice podcast called AskBiGrlz Archived 2021-11-26 at the Wayback Machine where they answer listener questions.

[31] The New York Times' Meghan Daum calls Mean one of the five best memoirs of 2017, writing "Gurba has a voice as distinct and infectious as any I've discovered in recent years.

"[32] New York Times' Parul Sehgal calls Mean "a scalding memoir that comes with a full accounting of the costs of survival, of being haunted by those you could not save and learning to live with their ghosts."

[39] Jill Soloway blurbs for Mean, describing Gurba's voice as, "an alchemy of queer magic feminist wildness, and intersectional explosion.

[43] Interviews with the author appear in The Los Angeles Review of Books,[44] Contemporary Women's Writing,[3] OC Weekly,[45] MOLAA,[46] The Normal School,[47] Weird Sister[48] and Otherppl.