Abigail Carl-Klassen is a poet, writer, researcher, educator, translator, and activist living in El Paso, Texas, with her husband and two children. She grew up in the oil fields of the Permian Basin alongside Old Colony Mennonite immigrants from Mexico and has worked in education, language services, community development, social science research, and agriculture in a variety of contexts across the U.S. and Latin America. She earned an MFA in Bilingual Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and her work has been published widely in English and Spanish, appearing in ZYZZYVA, Catapult, Cimarron Review, Guernica, Aster(ix) Huizache, and others. She has published two poetry chapbooks, A'int Country Like You (Digging Press) and Shelter Management (dancing girl press). Recordings of her oral history project, "Rebels, Exiles, and Bridge Builders: Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Campos Menonitas of Chihuahua" can be found on the Darp Stories YouTube channel.
