Abigail Santamaria is the author of Joy: Poet, Seeker, and the Woman Who Captivated C.S. Lewis (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015). She is recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar grant (2022), a Sustainable Arts Foundation award (2021), and a Leon Levy Center for Biography fellowship (2019). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Literary Hub, among other publications. Santamaria holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Columbia University.
At MacDowell, Santamaria worked on a literary biography of Madeleine L'Engle, the Newbery Medal-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time. It is set to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
