She is author of a series of legal thrillers centered on transgender lawyer Erin McCabe, including the novels By Way of Sorrow (2021), Survivor's Guilt (2022), Remain Silent (2023), and Nothing but the Truth(2024).
As part of the settlement in 2021, the Department of Corrections adopted a new prison placement policy based on gender identity.
During that time, she developed what would become her first book, By Way of Sorrow, a legal thriller with transgender lawyer Erin McCabe as its protagonist.
[3][4] Gigl's third novel, Remain Silent, was a finalist for the Joseph Hansen Award for LGBTQ Crime Writing.
[11] On the relation between her writing and her LGBTQ+ activism, Gigl told the New Jersey Law Journal in 2023: "I don't want to preach to people with my novels.