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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty

of keeping awake

a sense of wonder in this world.

 —Marc Chagall

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Abigail Carroll is a poet and author whose most recent collection, Cup My Days Like Water, borrows richly from the raw honesty and radiant confidence of the Psalms. Walter Brueggemann has called it “an unflinching witness to the reality and goodness of God.” Habitation of Wonder (Wipf & Stock, 2018), is an offering of poems that travels the intersection of the natural landscape and the landscape of spirit. A Gathering of Larks: Letters to Saint Francis from a Modern-Day Pilgrim (Eerdmans, 2017), has been called "sparked with joy and stitched with whimsy" by the Chicago Tribune, and Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal (Basic Books, 2013), was a finalist for the Zocalo Public Square Book Prize. Carroll's poems appear in the anthologies How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude & Hope (Storey Publishing, 2021) and Between Midnight and Dawn: A Literary Guide to Prayer for Lent, Holy Week, and Eastertide (Paraclete Press, 2016) as well as in numerous magazines and journals, including Ekstasis, The Anglican Theological Review, The Christian Century, Crab Orchard Review, Midwest Quarterly, River Oak Review, Sojourners, Spiritus, and Terrain. In addition, her prose has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, and Boston Globe.  Carroll holds a PhD in American Studies from Boston University, where she has taught history and writing. She makes her home in Vermont, where she serves as pastor of arts and spiritual formation at Church at the Well, and where she enjoys walking, photographing nature, and playing harp. The banner images on this site are her own.

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