Abigail Carl-Klassen

Abigail Carl-Klassen’s work has appeared in Cimarron Review, Guernica, Huizache, and Post Road, among others, and is anthologized in New Border Voices (Texas A&M University Press) Goodbye Mexico: Poems of Remembrance (Texas Review Press) and Outrage: A Protest Anthology for Injustice in a 9/11 World (Slough Press). She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets 2015. She earned an MFA from the University of Texas El Paso’s Bilingual Creative Writing Program and taught at El Paso Community College and the University of Texas El Paso. Before becoming a college instructor she worked in community development and in the El Paso public schools.