Abigail Savitch-Lew Follow

Abigail Savitch-Lew is a writer of fiction and nonfiction and an American of Jewish and Chinese (Ashkenazi and Toisanese) descent. She has a BA in literary arts from Brown University and an MFA in fiction from Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of the novel Livonia Chow Mein, and her short stories have been published in The Round, Post Road, The Best Teen Writing of 2010, and The Apprentice Writer. In 2019, she was an Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellow. A former staff reporter for City Limits, her reporting has also appeared in The Appeal, YES! Magazine, Colorlines, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, Jacobin, Open City, The Red Hook Star-Revue, and Urban Omnibus. She has taught writing at the high school and college level and now works as a storytelling and communicators coordinator at the New Economy Project.