Abby Geni

About the Author

Abby Geni is the author of the novels The Wildlands and The Lightkeepers, as well as the short story collection The Last Animal. Her books have been translated into seven languages and have won the Barnes & Noble Discover Award and the Chicago Review of Books Awards, among other honors. Her latest novel, The Wildlands, was named one of the best books of 2018 by Kirkus and Buzzfeed and was a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize. Geni is a faculty member at StoryStudio Chicago and frequently serves as Visiting  Associate Professor of Fiction at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.