Abby Geni

About the Author

Abby Geni is the author of the novels The Wildlands and The Lightkeepers and the short story collections The Last Animal 

and The Body Farm. 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 short stories have won the Glimmer Train Fiction Open and the Chautauqua Contest, and her stories and essays have been published or reprinted in dozens of literary magazines, including ​The Missouri Review, Epoch, Ninth Letter, and New Stories from the Midwest. Geni is a faculty member at StoryStudio Chicago and frequent Visiting Associate Professor of Fiction at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.