is a writer from Maryland. Their reporting has been published in Law360, the Rapid City Journal, their newsletter on culture and politics, www., and elsewhere.

In May 2026, Abby graduated with a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where they served as a graduate teaching associate for the English Department’s First Year Composition program, a tutor at the Judith Anderson Herbert Writing Center, public relations assistant for the English Department, and managing editor of Grist, a literary and arts journal run by UTK’s creative writing graduate students. They planned, researched, wrote, and successfully defended a thesis examining alcoholism’s effect on narrative in Jean Rhys’s 1934 novel Voyage in the Dark and her 1939 novel Good Morning, Midnight.

Previously, for three years, Abby covered wage and hour law, employment discrimination, and benefits on a national scale for Law360’s Employment Authority newsletter. At Law360, they wrote about, and became fluent in, legal cases concerning state, city, and national employment laws, particularly the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Abby also reported on union disputes and cases involving or challenging U.S. Department of Labor regulations and federal law exemptions, like the Federal Arbitration Act’s exemption for transportation workers.

Abby began their career in South Dakota reporting for both the Rapid City Journal and the Pierre Capital Journal, writing stories — syndicated across 30 publications nationwide — on the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Dakota State Legislature & Governor Kristi Noem, the trial and attempted impeachment of State Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, multiple school districts, Indigenous issues, environmental issues, marijuana legalization, and more.

In May 2020, Abby earned their Bachelor of Arts in English from Washington College in Maryland. There, they served as Editor-in-Chief of the student newspaper, The Elm, for two years, and interned at the Kent County News and the Washington Blade, a local weekly and a national LGBTQ weekly, respectively. Abby also worked as the Production Intern for the Literary House Press’s national literary journal, Cherry Tree. Upon graduation, they were named a finalist for the Sophie Kerr Prize, the largest undergraduate literary prize in the country, and won the Maureen Jacoby Prize for strong potential for future success in the field of editing and publishing.