Author

Abigail Carter, Author

As an expat Canadian living in New Jersey with my husband, Arron and two young children ages 6 and 2, I had a great job working as the website director at Audible.com. One fateful day in September, Arron didn’t come home from a trade show, killed in the attack on the twin towers on 9/11. Four years later, I moved to Seattle with my children and began writing to try to come to terms with my new life. The writing opened another world to me and I wrote The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation initially as a form of catharsis and ultimately as a work to heal other widowed people. The Alchemy of Loss was chosen by The Globe and Mail as one of the 100 Most Notable Books of 2008 and was long-listed for the B.C. Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, Canada’s largest Non-Fiction prize. I went on to self-publish a novel, Remember the Moon in 2014, exploring themes of grief and life after death. My work has also appeared in SELF magazine, Reader's Digest Canada, MSN.com, Huffington Post, and MORE.com and here, on my blog. I am at work on several projects: Sex and the Single Widow, a memoir exploring the connection between sex and grief, Camp Widow, a novel following six fictional widowed people who attend a conference for widowed people and Perfumed Sky, a novel based on the life of Balinese dancer, Devi Dja.