poetry and short fiction has appeared in two hundred outlets including, most recently, The Lake, The Atlanta Review, Blue Nib, Impspired and Fragmented Voices. She won the One Million Story Challenge in 2011 and, in 2019, a selection of her poems were translated into Romanian for Pro Saeculum. Abigail is a former English teacher with a lifelong interest in history. She is also carer to her very elderly mother. (Abigail Elizabeth Rowland writes poetry and short fiction publishing as Abigail Elizabeth Ottley)