Abigail Tarttelin

Abby is a queer Br-Irish Grimsbearian loss mum and award-winning author and community arts practitioner. Her novels include Golden Boy, "a grippingly innovative" coming-of-age novel with a "radical non-binary, pro-intersex message" (Hida Viloria, Autostraddle), published in 9 languages, and recipient of accolades including the American Library Association Alex Award, Best LGBT Debut LAMBDA Finalist, Booklist Top 10 First Novel, and School Library Journal Best Book. Abby was awarded 2024 Arts Council England x British National Lottery funding for a forthcoming fiction trilogy, and is working on a baby loss memoir.

Abby’s past work as a scriptwriter, presenter, journalist, and musician, includes scripts for BBC Films, ACE-funded podcast Writing Coercive Control, section editorship at Phoenix magazine, editorship of I Hope You Like Feminist Rants zine, journalism for the New York Times, the Guardian, the Independent, Glamour, Oh Comely, and the Huffington Post, and lead singer/lyricist of the band Girlboy.

Abby’s creative health community arts practice, IRL Creative Health, launched in June 2025 with an 8-part workshop series on journaling for fiction and non-fiction at Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation St Margaret’s House in Bethnal Green. She currently presents and writes for the political podcast, From Below The Balcony. Her writing will appear in a forthcoming (Autumn 2025) issue of Ache magazine.