Abby Manzella, a Pushcart Prize-winner, is the author of the short story collection, Ripples into the Wild, forthcoming from Cornerstone Press in February 2027. Her previous book, Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (OSU Press), won the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award, the Honorable Mention for the MLA Book Prize for Independent Scholars, and a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title recognition. Originally from Pennsylvania, she now lives in Missouri where she teaches at Truman State University. Her stories, essays, interviews, and reviews have been published by places such as The Threepenny Review, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and The Boston Globe. She was selected as an Artist-in-Residence at Plyspace in Muncie, Indiana; a Resident Fellow at Arizona State University's Institute for Humanities Research; and a scholarship recipient to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
 
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