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Hello! I’m Abby.

I’m an award-winning Simon & Schuster author who writes novels that aim to be deeply political, emotionally moving, and thoroughly entertaining. For more about me, click here.

On my Substack, I post new and archival fiction, book recommendations, and industry insights, as I return to publishing after five years away due to personal tragedy, with two novels about loss, grief, women’s football, and coming of age in your thirties—Remontada and Ordinary Woman Turns 30.

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