Abby Manzella is the author of Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (OSU Press), which won the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award, was awarded the Honorable Mention for the MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars, and was selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. Her short story collection, Ripples into the Wild, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in 2027. Her creative writing was awarded a 2025 Pushcart Prize. It was also twice named to the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, recognized by the CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest, and placed as a finalist in The Forge Literary Magazine Flash CNF Competition. Her stories, essays, interviews, and reviews have been published by places such as The Threepenny Review, Massachusetts Review, Pleiades, Superstition Review, Literary Hub, Electric Lit, Catapult, Kenyon Review, Colorado Review, and The Boston Globe. You can hear her read her work on Micro the podcast via Literary Hub. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Truman State University where she teaches creative writing, American literature, and film. She was an Artist-in-Residence at PlySpace in Muncie, Indiana, a Resident Associate at Arizona State University's Institute for Humanities Studies, and her writing has also been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She has been a senior reader for Ploughshares as well as a reader for New England Review. Feel free to get in touch with her under the Contact page about any freelance writing opportunities, teaching and workshop requests, and public speaking engagements or contact her directly at [email protected].

You can also find her on Bluesky @abbymanzella.bsky.social and on Facebook @AbbyManzellaAuthor and Instagram @abby.manzella and Twitter @AbbyManzella

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