Abby Manzella
@abbymanzella.bsky.social
Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP 2018). RIPPLES INTO THE WILD (Cornerstone Press 2027). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Mass Review, Pleiades, and HAD. https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
It's the perfect day for homemade strawberry jam on scones made for the pairing!
July 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It's the perfect day for homemade strawberry jam on scones made for the pairing!
I'm happy to announce that my short story collection, RIPPLES INTO THE WILD, will be published by Cornerstone Press (2/27)! These stories engage with realism, surrealism, and cli-fi. If you're an author with a nearby pub date or a pressmate, be in touch so we can plan events. The fun begins!!!
June 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'm happy to announce that my short story collection, RIPPLES INTO THE WILD, will be published by Cornerstone Press (2/27)! These stories engage with realism, surrealism, and cli-fi. If you're an author with a nearby pub date or a pressmate, be in touch so we can plan events. The fun begins!!!
Aisha Abdel Gawad, Crystal Hana Kim, Alice Driver, and Jenny Molberg at the Unbound Book Festival. Literature and commentary rule this weekend in Missouri!
April 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Aisha Abdel Gawad, Crystal Hana Kim, Alice Driver, and Jenny Molberg at the Unbound Book Festival. Literature and commentary rule this weekend in Missouri!
I have been experimenting with pickle sandwiches. Here is my take on a BLT club!
January 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I have been experimenting with pickle sandwiches. Here is my take on a BLT club!
The pies are coming! Here is my very first try at a cranberry curd pie!
November 27, 2024 at 5:13 PM
The pies are coming! Here is my very first try at a cranberry curd pie!
You can read the whole thing in Pleiades's fall issue. “The Lost History of the Ames Friendship Library” is a near-future story about Venezuelan American being forced to “Isolation Camps” reminiscent of the Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII, which I've studied and written on. 6/11
November 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
You can read the whole thing in Pleiades's fall issue. “The Lost History of the Ames Friendship Library” is a near-future story about Venezuelan American being forced to “Isolation Camps” reminiscent of the Japanese American incarceration camps during WWII, which I've studied and written on. 6/11
"A Community of E-Scavengers" you'll have to read this whole piece directly from The Massachusetts Review spring issue, but here's the opening of this essay about my experiences during Hurricane Sandy, community, and climate change. 3/11
November 17, 2024 at 7:02 PM
"A Community of E-Scavengers" you'll have to read this whole piece directly from The Massachusetts Review spring issue, but here's the opening of this essay about my experiences during Hurricane Sandy, community, and climate change. 3/11
I'm glad to have a near-future short story "The Lost History of the Ames Friendship Library" in the fall issue of Pleiades! "It’s going up in smoke, as they say in the cliché. The haze of what was fills the sky, like the mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb dropped over a hundred years ago."
November 15, 2024 at 5:18 PM
I'm glad to have a near-future short story "The Lost History of the Ames Friendship Library" in the fall issue of Pleiades! "It’s going up in smoke, as they say in the cliché. The haze of what was fills the sky, like the mushroom cloud from the nuclear bomb dropped over a hundred years ago."
A reminder for this first week of November from one of my short story characters: "I should have never let him inside in the first place....You don’t let the devil cast a shadow on your doorstep, and here I’d let him in our door." Check out the story and don't forget to vote! shorturl.at/vJQYt
November 4, 2024 at 2:51 PM
A reminder for this first week of November from one of my short story characters: "I should have never let him inside in the first place....You don’t let the devil cast a shadow on your doorstep, and here I’d let him in our door." Check out the story and don't forget to vote! shorturl.at/vJQYt
This is an important essay to me that is out in the spring issue of the Massachusetts Review. I write about my experiences during Superstorm Sandy to discuss climate change and our reliance on one another. Get a print copy to read more!
March 19, 2024 at 8:59 PM
This is an important essay to me that is out in the spring issue of the Massachusetts Review. I write about my experiences during Superstorm Sandy to discuss climate change and our reliance on one another. Get a print copy to read more!
It's raining, so I'm reading. I'm savoring the sense of loss and longing in @andrewporter01.bsky.social's THE DISAPPEARED.
August 13, 2023 at 3:26 PM
It's raining, so I'm reading. I'm savoring the sense of loss and longing in @andrewporter01.bsky.social's THE DISAPPEARED.