Abigail Ardelle Zammit

Abigail Ardelle Zammit is a Maltese writer, editor and educator.  Her poetry collections are Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh (Etruscan Press, 2025), Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (SPM, 2015) and Voices from the Land of Trees (Smokestack, 2007).  Abigail’s poems, translations and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Tupelo Quarterly, Matter, Black Iris, CounterText, mpT, Smokestack Lightning (Smokestack, 2021) and The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 (Véhicule Press, 2023), amongst others.  Abigail is currently researching desert landscapes from around four continents and her most hybrid collection              :deserere   #desertum is forthcoming with Tupelo Press (2028).