Abby Mims’ work has appeared or is forthcoming in The New York Times (Modern Love), Longreads, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Washington Post, The Lily, Ploughshares, NAILED Magazine, The Normal School and The Rumpus, among other publications and anthologies. Her story, “The Way They Loved the Dead” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is currently at work on a memoir and considering the possibility of a novel.