Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh

Abigail Ardelle Zammit is a Maltese writer and the author of two poetry collections, Voices from the Land of Trees (Middlesbrough: Smokestack, 2007) and Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (London: Sentinel, 2015), which won second prize in the SPM Poetry Competition. Her poetry and reviews have been published in a variety of international journals including Matter, Tupelo Quarterly, Boulevard, Gutter, Modern Poetry in Translation, Myslexia, Poetry International, The SHOp, Iota, Aesthetica, Ink, Sweat and Tears, and The Ekphrastic Review. She has co-authored two Maltese-English poetry pamphlets and written a Seamus Heaney guidebook for post-secondary students. Her most recent manuscripts have been shortlisted for the Cinnamon Press Literature Award 2022, the Tupelo Press Open Reading Period 2022, the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Prize and the 2023 Snowbound Chapbook Award. Abigail's passion for on-site research has allowed her to take part in artistic residencies around four continents. Her third poetry collection, Leaves Borrowed from Human Flesh is forthcoming with Etruscan Press (Wilkes University, 2025).