Álava writes since 2011 for the online magazine FronteraD, where she has published essays narrating a journalistic approach as a witness of the development and repercussions of being both an artist and a museum educator in five major museums of New York City.

In 2020, Editions El Ojo de la Cultura Hispanoamericana published in Spanish the book written by Alava entitled “Cómo perder el miedo dentro de un museo: Crónica de una década en Nueva York”. (“How to be fearless in a museum. Chronicle of a decade in New York”)

In 2019, a special edition of “Tell Me the Truth.” The book was presented at the Book Fair: Feria del Libro de Madrid 2019, hosted by the library La Fábrica.

In 2018, Álava founded the bilingual English/Spanish blog and platform HEXAGONSGLOBAL.COM .

In 2013, Gema Álava Studio published the bilingual book “Tell Me the Truth 2008-2013”. For this artistic project, Álava invited fourteen accomplished professionals from different fields (lawyers, journalists, scientists, artists, historians, a fighter pilot and a neurologist) to talk about the possibility or impossibility of telling truths within their fields. The first edition was presented in 2013 in Madrid at TWIN Gallery, and in New York City at The Instituto Cervantes.

In 2012, Gema Alava Studio published the bilingual book “Gema Álava: School for Tightrope walkers” with an essay by Jonathan Goodman entitled: “Gema Álava, Brave New World”. The book documents the evolution of Álava’s work during the decade 2002-2012 with photographs and a selection of press segments, as well as interviews with the artist.