Abby Seethoff is an essayist and poet from Bellevue, Washington. Some of her work interrogates beauty standards, the category of "waste," and the American culture of atonement. Some of it illuminates her senses of curiosity, wonder, and humor. Her best pieces do both. Nowadays she resides in Brooklyn, New York, where she plays a lot of volleyball and eats a lot of cake. She writes a newsletter called
Bombazine, and
her work has appeared in
Split Lip Magazine,
The Hopper, and
Mangoprism.
She is also a
professional public speaker, an
award-winning darner, a designer with
many, many posters under her belt, and a volleyball coach with experience at the U12, U14, U17, collegiate men's club, DI & NAIA levels. Like many writers she hopes to make the world a more just place, and while all issues of oppression intersect, she's especially interested in anti-diet justice, recycling and re-use, the aesthetic reclamation of discarded objects, and advocating for women in sports.
Abby has earned an M.F.A. in creative writing (nonfiction) from the University of Montana and a B.A. in English and Spanish from Whitman College.
Photo credits:
Johanna Lee,
Pictures of Poets (Dean Davis),
Beatrice Alder. Homepage header by
Marianne Kellogg.