About

Abby Horowitz is a writer and graphic storyteller whose work focuses on motherhood, women's lives & bodies, and Jews & Jewish life. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in Slice, Gulf Coast, and Kenyon Review Online, among many other journals, while her graphic essays have appeared in national Jewish media outlets including the Forward and Moment magazine.

 

Abby won the Goldenberg Fiction Prize from Bellevue Literary Review (judged by Nathan Englander), and came in second in American Short Fiction's Halifax Ranch Prize (judged by R.O. Kwon). ​​She has a BA in English from Dartmouth College, an MA in Jewish Studies from Emory University, an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and was a recent fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She lives in Albany, NY, with her family.