Abigail Beckel is a poet and the publisher of Rose Metal Press, an independent, nonprofit publishing house for books in hybrid genres that she co-founded in 2006. Her poems have been featured in Delaware Poetry Review, Open Letters Monthly, and The Fourth River, among others publications. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Abigail’s poems, How We Know the Cold is Coming, or October; Vigil and Spooning were read at the Solstice Shorts Festival 2015, Longest Night, and will be in the Shortest Day, Longest Night anthology.