Abigail Pesta is a writer based in New York and an editor at Marie Claire magazine.

Currently she is working on a children's book in collaboration with the artist Maureen O'Hara Pesta. Read Abby's short stories at Fine Words Butter No Parsnips, a website of fiction and art produced with Jesse Pesta.

At Marie Claire, Abby oversees the magazine's international coverage, and writes and edits news and features. Before joining Marie Claire, she was an editor at Glamour.

As an editor, Abby has worked with writers including Lucette Lagnado, author of "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit," Asra Nomani, author of "Standing Alone in Mecca," and Mariane Pearl, author of "A Mighty Heart," whom Abby recruited to Glamour to write a monthly column, "Global Diary." Abby shared a prestigious 2007 National Headliner Award for her role as editor of three of Mariane's inaugural columns.

Abby has interviewed individuals including actresses Reese Witherspoon and Daryl Hannah, Queens Noor and Rania of Jordan, and Jessica Lynch, the young American soldier who was taken captive in Iraq.

Previously she was a news editor at The Wall Street Journal, and she continues to occasionally write for the Journal.

Abby has lived and worked as a journalist in New York, Hong Kong and London.

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