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Abbey Fenbert is a writer and editor living in Chicago. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University and a BA from NYU. Her original plays have been produced and developed by the Matrix Theatre Company, Red Theatre Chicago, Northern Illinois University, the Playwrights Union of Los Angeles, the Great Plains Theatre Conference, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, the KNOW Theatre, the Berkshire Playwrights’ Lab, the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis and the Vagrancy. Her plays Sickle and Child were Finalists for the 2016 and 2017 O’Neill National Playwrights Conferences, respectively. She's received multiple honors from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, including the 2013 Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting. Her short dramatic works are published in anthologies from Smith & Kraus and her writing has been featured online at Catapult, The Toast, McSweeney’s, The Offing, HowlRound and American Theatre. She also wrote and stars in the webseries Beck & Clem, a feminist time-travel comedy. Fenbert is currently a News Editor at the Kyiv Independent, an English-language media outlet based in Ukraine.