Meet Abigail
Award-winning author of Dead Girls, Golden Boy, and Flick. "A natural storyteller" —Matt Haig. "A fearless writer" —Emily St John Mandel.
Abigail is an award-winning author, political commentator, podcaster, and storyteller on page and screen. Her novels include Golden Boy, developed by BBC Films, published in nine languages, and beloved by readers.
Her early works, a triptych of novels exploring gender, sought progress, intersectionality, and non-binary representation. Alongside works of other esteemed writers and artists, they contributed to a cultural conversation in the 2010s which inspired profound societal change.
Golden Boy was an American Library Association Alex Award winner, shortlisted for a Best LGBT Debut LAMBDA Literary Award, and a Booklist Top Ten First Novel.
Abigail continues to write about inequalities, including violence against girls and women, wealth taxation, journalistic freedom, work, and voting, rights. She’s written for Ache Magazine, Glamour, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Oh Comely, Art & Type, and was a columnist at Huffpost, section editor at Phoenix, and EIC of I Hope You Like Feminist Rants.
In sound and screen, Abby collaborated with Clear Lines Festival to produce Arts Council x National Lottery funded podcast, Writing Coercive Control, exploring control in domestic, workplace, national, and trans-cultural spheres, with today’s leading authors. Now, on politics podcast From Below The Balcony, she interviews Senators, MPs, and journalists, alongside campaigner and author Graham Smith, garnering 600,000 views on social media in just 10 episodes. In the past, she has written scripts for BBC Films and sat on the jury of the British Independent Film Awards.
Online since 2007, friends and followers from tumblr, youtube, wordpress, and instagram now catch up with Abby on Substack, where she posts new and archival fiction, reading recommendations, and news.
Her vision of young people yearning for love and acceptance in a restrictive and binary world touched hearts across the globe. After five years away from the industry due to personal tragedy, Abigail returns with two works of tremendous grace—Remontada and Ordinary Woman Turns 30.
“Tarttelin’s prose is as compassionate as it is compelling”—Interview Magazine
