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, Electric Literature, 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. Her chapbooks include Deviants, a hybrid work that was awarded Sundress Publications’ Chapbook Prize. She has been awarded fellowships from UW-Madison’s Institute for Creative Writing, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Ragdale, and numerous other organizations.

Contributions: Two poems [Summer 2025]