Abigail Eliza

Hi! If you've made it this far, here's a collection of things I've written and other people have agreed to print.Eventually I'll try to talk a bit about my writing style here, but I'm mostly trying to make this something other than a bunk link literal months after OTHERSIDE put this link up on their site.SHORT FICTION // ESSAYSYour First Days Back in the Court of Arthur (OTHERSIDE, March 2026)
"Simply awe-inspiring." (Lyndsie Manusos, Bookriot)So I have never been normal about Gawain in my life. I wrote this piece on a fervor on the 48 bus and my partner made fun of me to pieces for Gawain's sad boy act. I just think there's something awful about going back to the "real world" after discovering a faerieland where you could truly be queer, and I'm glad M.R. at OTHERSIDE agreed.Remember Bisclavret is a Generational Curse (Folklore Review, Summer 2026)
Nominated for Best Small Fictions 2026A werewolf story, but only relationally. I also wrote this piece in a fervor, but this time, in a cafe with truly awful vibes and really loud music I tried to drown out with Gregory Alan Isakov through my headphones. My love of medieval poetry owes a life-debt to Leila Kate Norako, who teaches queer medievalism at the UW, and this bit and bob is no exception.Portrait of a Lesbian Who Pulled Out Her Insides to Make Cheap Kindling (Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology, Spring 2025)A tiny essay about my first winter in the worst apartment in the world, ft. black mold, no working heaters, and working long hours in the dark at a coffee shop across the highway. Mostly, it's about asking yourself, 'what the fuck am I doing?' when you go home for Christmas realize how absurd it's gotten. Washington State Poet Laureate Arianna True put this collection together (pretty neat!)The Mitski Concert (From Someone Who Didn't Go) (Bricolage / University of Washington, Spring 2024)
Print only! This was one of the first things I'd written that wasn't pure fiction or for school. It's mostly about that first year of college where everything is new and strange and perfect and you're so in love with your friends.POETRY"When I'm Not Teaching" and "Arrow Straight / Still Runs" (Stone of Madness Press, Issue 32 / Winter 2026)"Arrow Straight" is a golden shovel for a line from my favorite Richard Hugo poem, "Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg": "the car that brought you here still runs." I really love the poem for the opening of the previous stanza --- "isn't this your life? That ancient kiss still burning out your eyes?" --- both lines sort of lead themselves into that theme I'm grasping for here. This poem is a dream I had about the closeted girl who was my teenage queer awakening --- E, I hope you find a place to be your truest self. My love of Richard Hugo is the responsibility of my former boss, Frances McCue."When I'm Not Teaching" is about the extended summer I had between my undergrad and starting teaching/starting my Master's, that glorious two months where I had just one job. It's also about sword-fighting, being in love, late spring, and LARP, relationally. If you haven't read the Wikipedia page for Bushisms (good lord), now is also your time.Winter Solstice '24 (Stone Circle Review, 2025)I've got a lot of weird rituals about both the winter and summer solstices that can't be overlooked. One of them, quite literally, is to sleep with the windows open. Relationally, this one is also about sword-fighting and love and those things looking different than they used to."Georgia, Always" (Rainy Day / Cornell, Spring 2024)Wrote this one in the notes app from a Waffle House parking lot. Do you ever come home your first summer after college and freak out? I still love Waffle House, I still hate cars."Anything, Anything Anything" (Bricolage / University of Washington, Spring 2024)Print only! My first piece in a lit journal. It's about Mary Oliver and oh, god, being a lesbian rocks.