Abby Melick (she/hers) is a New York-based writer, translator, and educator. Her short stories have been published or are forthcoming in Flash Fiction Magazine and Brink Literary Journal, and her translations have been featured in the Columbia Word for Word Anthology. The Grown-Ups, a play she co-devised, was recently published by Samuel French. Abby has a BA in English from Princeton and is pursuing an MFA in Writing and Translation at Columbia University, where she teaches in the undergraduate writing program. At Catwalk, Abby will work on her first novel, For Real This Time, about an aspiring stage actress caught up with a community of method actors.

Affiliation: Columbia