Heather Abel

Heather Abel is a fiction writer and journalist. She worked as a reporter and editor for High Country News and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Telegraph, and the anthology The Friend Who Got Away, among other places. Originally from Los Angeles, she now lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and daughters. Her most recent non-fiction is about celiac disease, bananas, her mom, and the rise of the gluten-free diet.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Short Stories 2016*

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