Abigail Bereola has been many things. She has worked at Riverhead Books in publicity and at Chez Panisse as a busser. She has transcribed audio for Radiolab and sold books at Books Are Magic.

In the most current iteration of her life, she is a copywriter who also regularly interviews authors like Tayari Jones, Brené Brown, Nikki Giovanni, Jodi Picoult, Kiese Laymon, and Danzy Senna. Her freelance work has been published in the Paris Review Daily, Shondaland, GQ, and Hazlitt, among other publications. Abigail is currently working on a novel and a collection of short stories, both examining in different ways how women are impacted by gender-based violence. For her fiction, she has been supported by Tin House, the Kenyon Review, Callaloo, and other organizations that she feels much gratitude toward. She is a lover of the arts in general and currently lives in Oakland.

In case you want the nitty gritty—workshops, conferences, and honors:

2025 — Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (forthcoming)
2025 — Tin House Winter Workshop (instructed by ’Pemi Aguda)
2024 — Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize Shortlist, “Like Prey”
2024 — Quiet Lightning’s Poetry in Parks (submission-based), “Elephants”
2023 — Rooted & Written Fellowship at the Writers Grotto
2018 — Made in NY Podcast Certificate Program (instructed by Kerry Donahue)
2016 — Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop (instructed by Jacinda Townsend)
2015 — Summer Seminar for Writers at Sarah Lawrence (instructed by David Hollander)