ABIGAIL SANTAMARIA
BIO
Abigail Santamaria is a 2024-2025 Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She is the author of Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015), and is currently at work on I Am Meg: The Life of Madeleine L’Engle, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Past awards include a MacDowell Fellowship (2023), a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar grant (2022), a Sustainable Arts Foundation award (2021), and a Leon Levy Center for Biography fellowship (2019). In 2022, Abby was a finalist for a CINTAS Foundation Award in Creative Writing, for writers of Cuban heritage. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and Literary Hub, among other publications. Abby earned a MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. Follow her on Instagram: @asantamariawriter
