Colleen Abel

Colleen Abel is a multigenre writer and the editor-in-chief of Bluestem magazine. Her poetry and prose have appeared in venues such as Lit Hub, Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, Colorado Review, Pleiades, The Stinging Fly, and in several anthologies of Disabled writers. Her first poetry collection, REMAKE, won the Editors Prize from Unicorn Press. She has two chapbooks, HOUSEWIFERY and DEVIANTS, a hybrid work that won Sundress Publications’ 2016 Chapbook Prize. She has been awarded fellowships from UW-Madison’s Institute for Creative Writing, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, and, in 2023, from the Illinois Arts Council as a Prose Fellowship Recipient.