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Abigail Sheaffer (born October 29th, 1989) is the founding editor-in-chief of Chicago Literati and The Vignette Review.

Background and education
Abigail grew up in St. Charles, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. She is a 2012 graduate of Columbia College Chicago's now defunct Fiction Writing department. Following her August graduation from Columbia, Abigail founded Chicago Literati using the Tribune Media platform, ChicagoNow. Chicago Literati pioneered the concept of the reading series review as a way to boon sales and attendance to myriad reading series in the neighborhoods of Chicago. In May 2015, Chicago Literati extricated from ChicagoNow and became an independent entity, and on September 17th, 2015, the online magazine became incorporated and received tax exemption from the federal government.

In April 2015, Abigail founded The Vignette Review, a sister publication of Chicago Literati.

Publications
Abigail's short fiction has appeared in:


 * Bird's Thumb (2014)
 * Bluestockings Magazine (2014)
 * Crab Fat (2015)
 * Danse Macabre (2015)
 * Literary Orphans (2012)