About Abigail

Abigail Wender’s debut collection, Reliquary, was published in February 2021 by Four Way Books. Her translation of Iris Hanika’s award-winning novel, The Bureau of Past Management is available from V&Q Books.

Her poems have been published in Bodega, The Cortland Review, DMQ Review, Epiphany, Guernica / a magazine of art and politics, Kenyon Review Online, The Massachusetts Review, New Orleans Review, The Madison Review, and other journals and anthologies including The Traveler’s Mecum, A Poetry Anthology. Her translations from German have appeared in Asymptote, Epiphany, Tupelo Quarterly, and the New Haven Review.

Commissions

Abigail’s latest project is a series of poems about the body to accompany artist Anita Glesta’s “Heart” series, an installation of sculpture, video, and painting. Media Art Xploration (MAX) commissioned a poem which was performed in May 2019 at the Exploratorium, San Francisco, to accompany artist Xin Liu’s installation “Everything Beautiful Is Far Away.” Abigail has also performed her translation of “The Trout” and original work with the North Country Chamber Players at the White Mountains Music Festival.

Organizations

She is the President of Friends of Writers, a not-for-profit organization that raises scholarship funds for adult writers in need of financial support, is Vice-President of the Board of Governor’s of the Poetry Society of America, and a trustee emerita of the Kenyon Review. She holds degrees from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and the New School for Social Research, and lives in New York City.