Abigail Santamaria

Abigail Santamaria 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. She was a 2024-2025 Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and has received awards from MacDowell (2023), the National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Program (2022), the Sustainable Arts Foundation (2021), and the Leon Levy Center for Biography (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, The Boston Globe, and Literary Hub, among other publications.