ABBY PAIGE is a writer, theater artist, and twelfth-generation settler in N’dakinna, with roots in northern Vermont and francophone Canada. Her book Piecework / Travail à la pièce, published by the University of Maine Press, collects her two solo shows in a single bilingual volume. Both plays, Piecework: When We Were French and Les filles du QUOI?, explore the influence of French-Canadian and Franco-American culture on life in New England and the shifting borders between places, languages, and identities.
Abby’s poems and other writing have appeared in publications in Canada and the U.S., including the 2020 Best Canadian Poetry Anthology. She is Drama and Book Review Editor for Résonance, a Franco-American literary journal sponsored by the University of Maine. She currently lives in Vermont, where she was born and raised.
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THEATER CREATION
“As an actor and theater artist, I am interested in work that creates startling intimacy between audiences and performers and tells stories in which people can find themselves. I believe in a theatre that reveals universal human themes within localized, historicized experiences. My background in comedy informs all the work I do: I am drawn to performances that favor vulnerability and simplicity over spectacle. In an age where technology increasingly isolates us from one another, I see theater as a space of encounter and communion, more sacred now than ever before.”
Complete actor’s CV available by request.
WRITING
BOOK
Piecework: Two Plays / Travail à la pièce : Deux pièces de théâtre, University of Maine Press, 2025.
POETRY CHAPBOOKS
Clean Margins, Harbor Review Editor’s Prize, 2020.
Other Brief Discourses, above/ground press, 2013.
POETRY ANTHOLOGIES
Best Canadian Poetry 2020, edited by Marilyn Dumont, 2020.
Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology, edited by Priscila Uppal & Meaghan Strimas, Mansfield Press, 2018.
Heliotrope: French-Heritage Women Create, edited by Rhea Coté Robbins, Franco-American Women’s Institute, 2016.
The WRUV Reader: A Vermont Writers’ Anthology, edited by Chris Evans, UVM Student Media, Burlington, VT, 2012.
AFTER THE MOUNTAIN: The A.M. Klein Reboot Project Anthology, edited by Jason Camlot, Synapse Chapbook Series, Montreal, QC, 2011.
OTHER SELECTED PROSE
Interview: “Call and Response: A Franco-American Conversation,” Le Forum, Spring 2022.
Review Essay: Five Books of Poetry by Connie Voisine, Résonance, #2, 2020.
Book Review: Three books of poetry, Montreal Review of Books, Issue 61, Spring 2020.
Book Review: Orange by Christine Herzer, PRISM International, November 2018.
OTHER SELECTED POETRY
The League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause – January & February 2019.
Arc Poetry Magazine – Poem of the Year Shortlist, 2017.
Room Magazine – Poem of the Year, 2013.
RHINO Poetry – Founders’ Prize, 2011.
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