Abigail Chabitnoy is a Koniag descendant and member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak. She is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan 2022) and How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry and winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award, and the linocut illustrated chapbook Converging Lines of Light (Flower Press 2021). She was a 2021 Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon Writers Workshop and the recipient of the 2020 Witter Bynner Native Poet Residency at Elsewhere Studios in Paonia, CO. Her poems have appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, LitHub, and Red Ink, among others. She currently teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst. Abigail holds a BA in Anthropology and English from Saint Vincent College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Colorado State University. Find her at salmonfisherpoet.com.

Website: www.salmonfisherpoet.com

Twitter Username: @achabitnoy

Awards

• Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon Writers Workshop(2020)
• Shortlisted for Griffin Poetry Prize(2020)
• Locked Horn Press Publication Prize(2017)
• John Clark Pratt Citizenship Award(2016)
• Distinction in Creativity Award(2015)
• AWP Intro Journals Award(2015)

Employment

• Research Associate at Bubar & Hall Consulting, LLC (December 2016 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology & English from Saint Vincent College (May 2009)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Poetry from Colorado State University (May 2016)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry