Abigail Ardelle Zammit is from the island of Malta. She is a senior lecturer in English language and literature and has had poetry published in a variety of British and American journals. Abigail’s two collections of poetry are Voices from the Land of Trees (Smokestack, 2007), and Portrait of a Woman with Sea Urchin (SPM, 2015), which won second prize in the Sentinel Poetry Book Competition. Half Spine, Half Wild Flower: Nofsi Spina, Nofsi Fjur SelvaÄ¡Ä¡(2016, trans. Gioele Galea) is a Maltese-English version of a sequence of poems whose subject is the Maltese fertility goddess. Abigail's most recent book is The Poetry Buddy: A Seamus Heaney Guide for Advanced Level Students (2020). Abigail holds a PhD in Creative Writing (Lancaster), and is currently working on a collection of poems exploring the connections between place, text, body, and the female experience.Â