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Abigail Manzella

Abigail G. H. Manzella

Abigail G. H. Manzella‘s scholarly book Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Migrations was released in 2018 from The Ohio State University Press. She has articles and poetry published with the Rumpus, Women’s Review of Books, The Millions, Bust, Ms., and Frontiers. Currently at work on a book of creative nonfiction, she has taught and written on contemporary American literature and culture, particularly as they relate to issues of space, race, and gender, at the University of Missouri, Yeshiva University, Centre College, Tufts, and the University of Virginia.