ABOUT ME
novelist. journalist. third generation brooklynite.
Author of Livonia Chow Mein, Simon & Schuster, April 2026.
Represented by Jim McCarthy at Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC.
Abigail Savitch-Lew is a writer of fiction and non-fiction and an American of Jewish and Chinese (Ashkenazi and Toisanese) descent.
She likes to write and think about American history, social movements, dismantling racial capitalism, mental health care, and economic democracy.
Abby has a B.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University and an M.F.A. in fiction from Rutgers University-Newark, and her short stories have been published in The Round, Post Road, The Best Teen Writing of 2010, and The Apprentice Writer. In 2019, she was an Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellow.
A former staff reporter for City Limits, her reporting has also appeared in The Appeal, YES! Magazine, Colorlines, The Nation, Dissent Magazine, Jacobin, Open City, The Red Hook Star-Revue, and Urban Omnibus. She has taught writing at the high school and college level, and now works as a Storytelling & Communicators Coordinator at New Economy Project.
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