Abby Travis

Abby Travis is the editorial assistant and senior nonfiction reader at Ploughshares. She received her MFA in creative nonfiction from Emerson College, where she teaches creative writing, composition, and research writing. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Crab Orchard Review as finalist for the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize, The Rectangle, Rain Taxi Review of Books, on Powell's Books' Review-a-Day online, and elsewhere.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2015*

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