Abigail Carl-Klassen

Abigail Carl-Klassen is a poet, writer, translator and educator raised in rural west Texas and radicalized on the U.S.-Mexico border. She has done docupoetic work with migrant workers, Old Colony Mennonite communities in Mexico and Texas, social workers, homeless communities, immigrant communities along the U.S.-Mexico border and most recently, with Central American migrants and asylum seekers in Mexico. Her work has appeared in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, Cimarron ReviewWillow Springs, GuernicaAster(ix), Sonora Review and Kweli, among others. She earned an MFA from the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing Program and taught at El Paso Community College and the University of Texas El Paso. She is a staff writer for Poets Reading the News and her chapbook Shelter Management is now available from dancing girl press. Her work can be found at https://abigailcarlklassen.wordpress.com/.

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