Abigail Templeton-Greene’s poetry has been published in Rattle, McSweeneys, Two Hawks Quarterly, The Tulane Review, Hobo Pancakes, and other journals. She has an MFA from Antioch University and is a recipient of the 2011 Lighthouse Writers Seven Deadly Sins Writing Contest. Abigail teaches Creative Writing in Denver, CO.
Abby comes from a family of storytellers. Sitting around the dinner table she and her sister would beg their dad to tell them about his childhood. Their favorite story was the one about the time he wore a snorkel mask in the bathtub to avoid having to go to baseball practice. Her own writing can also be summarized in a story: a friend’s mom once analyzed Abby's handwriting, among other traits she said she was a very talented liar. Perhaps that is where her ability to write comes from. In her poems Abby likes to stretch and twist reality, searching for a deeper pattern of human behavior, some pulse that we can all relate to.