Abby Salois

ABOUT ABBY

Abby Salois is a novelist and essayist who believes in destigmatizing suicide and mental health through storytelling. In July 2025, her unpublished novel, Wild Child, was recognized by the Black List as a “must read.”

Abby’s writing can be found in Cognoscenti, the essays and ideas section of Boston’s NPR, the blog for the national nonprofit To Write Love on Her Arms (“TWLOHA”), and other publications.

Abby is currently a student in Grub Street’s 9-month Novel Generator program, where she’s working on her second book, literary suspense set in the insular equestrian world. In 2024, she revised Wild Child as a student in the Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop’s 10-month novel revision intensive.

Abby serves as a board member for the nonprofit, independent news organization, The Worcester Guardian, and for the Shine Initiative, a youth mental health nonprofit. An alumni of the University of Delaware and Suffolk University Law School, she is a practicing attorney and she lives in Massachusetts with her family.  

WRITING

WBUR Cognoscenti

After my sister died, I found refuge in my running sneakers
"I often think it isn’t a coincidence that so many endurance athletes come to running after experiencing something awful. Addiction. Cancer. Loss. Trauma. Everyone seems to be running for something, or from something, or through it..."
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Leatherworker helps transform jackets to bags, grief to healing
"In the span of five years, I lost my father and my older sister, Liza. By September 2015, leukemia had taken my father’s once-strong body and years of cardiovascular disease had compromised his blood’s ability to reach his brain, dulling his once-sharp mind.:
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A Complicated Death Begot Complicated Grief
"My children were four and two when my older sister, Liza, died by suicide. After plastering on a pleasant smile at work all day, my children’s 7:30 bedtime was the only barrier between a functioning mother and my raw grief..."
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A golden era gala celebrating 20 years of Shine
"Mental health isn’t new—and neither is Shine. For two decades, the Worcester-based nonprofit has been helping young people talk about mental health early and often, equipping schools and families with the tools to do the same."
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In these times, we must check in on loved ones.
"MY OLDER SISTER Liza died on October 25, 2020, when all her struggles came to a head; no single factor was to blame. She did not treat or really acknowledge her mental illness. She misused drugs and alcohol."
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235,700 Lonely People
"It was just after nine on October 25 and our children were sleeping upstairs when I received a message from the New York City Police Department. I dropped to the kitchen floor and squeezed my hands over my face because I already knew that she was gone..."
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CONTACT

Agent
Mark Gottlieb, Trident Media Group
mgottlieb@tridentmediagroup.com