Abigail Pesta is a writer based in New York and the editor-at-large at Marie Claire magazine. She has lived and worked around the world, from London to Hong Kong.

She is represented by the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency. Read Abby's short stories at Fine Words Butter No Parsnips, a website of art and fiction produced in collaboration with Maureen O'Hara Pesta and 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.

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

Abby has interviewed individuals including Michelle Obama, Reese Witherspoon, Petra Nemcova, Donatella Versace, Christy Turlington, Queens Noor and Rania of Jordan, Venus and Serena Williams, Diane von Furstenburg, Alicia Keys, Natasha Bedingfield, and Jessica Lynch, the young American soldier who was taken captive in Iraq. She has profiled former sex slaves in Cambodia, and Georgetown University students who chase Pakistani terrorists. She has also written about expatriates, entrepreneurs, jailbirds, danger junkies and disaster survivors.

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 National Headliner Award for her role as editor of the inaugural columns in the series.

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

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