Abigail ronner
Abigail Ronner is a NYC & Asheville-based journalist with her MFA in fiction from Columbia University. As a contributing writer for VICE she covered arts and culture in New York for many years, interviewing luminaries such as Errol Morris and David Salle. Her article on the Federation of Black Cowboys ran as a cover story for The Village Voice. Her journalism has also appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, Galerie Magazine, Highsnobiety, AnOther Magazine, Narratively, and elsewhere.
While at Columbia, she studied with Richard Ford, James Wood, Rivka Glachen, Hilton Als, Emma Cline, and others. She also taught creative writing to formerly incarcerated students and was awarded a merit-based scholarship to attend the New York State Summer Writers Institute at Skidmore. Her short story, Miscommunications, won an Honorable Mention in Glimmer Train’s final New Writers’ Contest. Previously, she was selected by Pulitzer Prize nominated author, David Gates, to attend the Writer’s Foundry at St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn with a full merit-based scholarship. She is currently at work on a novel.