Abby Templeton

Abby Templeton-Greene is the author of Prayer from a Magdalena Jail Cell, published with Finishing Line Press and An Avocado Slowly Falling, a collection of bilingual poems in Spanish and English, published with Dancing Girl Press. Her work has been published in McSweeneys, Calyx, RATTLE, Pilgrimage, The Wazee, The Mom Egg Review, and other journals. She was the recipient of the 2011 Lighthouse Writers Seven Deadly Sins Writing Contest, the 2012 Sixfold Writers contest prize for poetry and a finalist in the Blast Furnace Chapbook competition. She is currently working on her third collection of poetry.