Abigail Ardelle Zammit’s third collection, Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh, is forthcoming with Etruscan Press (Wilkes University). Abigail is a Maltese writer, educator and editor whose poetry and reviews have appeared in international journals and anthologies including Black Iris, Matter, Tupelo Quarterly, Boulevard, Gutter, Modern Poetry in Translation, Mslexia, Poetry International, Ink, Sweat and Tears, High Window, The Ekphrastic Review, Smokestack Lightning (Smokestack, 2021) and The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 (Véhicule Press, 2023). Abigail’s other poetry collections are Voices from the Land of Trees (UK: Smokestack, 2007), and Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (London: SPM, 2015). She has co-authored two bilingual pamphlets (Half Spine, Half Wild Flower – Nofsi Spina, Nofsi Fjur Selvaġġ) and written A Seamus Heaney guidebook for high-school students. Her most recent manuscripts have been shortlisted for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Prize and the 2024 Snowbound Chapbook Award.
