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Abigail Savitch-Lew tries to keep fiction out of her reporting and stuff as much reporting as elegantly possible into her fiction.

A native of Brooklyn, she likes to write and think about housing, land use, displacement, community land trusts, collectivism, capitalism, racism, white supremacy, being half Jewish and half Chinese, anti-imperialism, and the future of America.

She is a former staff reporter for City Limits, and her work has additionally appeared in The Appeal, YES! Magazine, Colorlines, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, Jacobin, Open City, and Urban Omnibus.

Her short stories have been published in The Round, Post Road, The Best Teen Writing of 2010, and The Apprentice Writer. She is a part-time lecturer in Creative Writing and an MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction student at Rutgers University in Newark, and is currently working on her first novel.

Week 3: Completing a draft, & Weeping My Way through Senna and Eugenides

The trees here are turning ginko-yellow and jack-o-lantern orange, and the animals are going berserk. Is it this way every fall? I woke up one morning because there were squirrels chasing each other across the outer walls of my bedroom. Yesterday, I was sitting on a very low-to-the-ground bench reading a book and a chipmunk…

week #2 at Millay: writing ’70s nyc from a sugar maple forest…?

My dear friends, I have made much progress with the novel this week but the content has been very dark. I spent many hours researching and writing about NYC’s 1977 blackout and its aftermath; white collar arson-for-profit rings; the crack epidemic, and the national sex offender registry. This was all going toward a lot of…

First week at the Millay Colony

A few thoughts from my first week at the Millay Colony of the Arts! It is so quiet here, sometimes I wonder if I’m wearing my earplugs. We all have quaint private bedrooms and vast private studios equipped with desks and couches. My studio has large windows facing the brush field and sky, and a…

Histories of Brownsville: Violence Disrupters Speak

Last week, I wrote in The Appeal about Brownsville, Brooklyn’s visions for the future of public safety. As I wrote there: “During the town hall and in a dozen interviews with The Appeal, residents and advocates said violence in Brownsville is symptomatic of poverty and a multitude of still unaddressed needs for youth and recreation…

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