a hearth for Jewish poetry

Abi Pollokoff

Production Editor, Girl Friday Productions; Managing Editor, Poetry Northwest Editions

Birth Year
b. 1991
Current City
Seattle, Washington, USA
Birth City
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Genre(s)
Poetry, Other
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Author Reading

Biography

Abi Pollokoff is a Seattle-based writer, editor, and book artist with work found in Palette Poetry, The Seventh Wave, EcoTheoDenver Quarterly, and Guernica, among others. She is a 2022 Gatewood Prize finalist, a 2021 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize semifinalist, and a 2019 Omnidawn broadside contest finalist. Her work has been supported by the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Hugo House, Seattle Review of Books, and other organizations. Currently, Abi is the managing editor for Poetry Northwest Editions and a production editor at Girl Friday Productions. She received her MFA from the University of Washington.

Links to Sample Works

Languages of Publication(s) and Poets Translated

French, Italian

Subject Matter

Art & Ekphrasis, Death, Environment & Climate Crisis, Friendship, Grief & Elegy, Loss, Love, Misogyny, Mythology, Nature, Other, Visual Art, Feminism.