Abigail Ardelle Zammit is a Maltese writer, editor and educator. Her poetry collections are Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh (Etruscan Press, Wilkes University, 2025), Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (London: SPM, 2015) and Voices from the Land of Trees (UK: Smokestack, 2007). She has co-authored two bilingual pamphlets – Half Spine, Half Wild Flower: Nofsi Spina, Nofsi Fjur Selvaġġ and Mal-Waqgħa tal-Weraq: A Scatter of Leaves. Abigail’s poems, translations and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of international journals and anthologies including CounterText, Black Iris, Matter, Tupelo Quarterly, Boulevard, Gutter, Modern Poetry in Translation, Mslexia, Poetry International, The SHOp, Iota, Aesthetica, Ink, Sweat and Tears, High Window, O:JA&L, The Ekphrastic Review, Smokestack Lightning (Smokestack, 2021) and The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2022 (Véhicule Press, 2023). Abigail is currently researching desert landscapes from around the world. Read her latest work at abigailardellezammit.net.
