Albert Abonado is a poet and essayist based in Rochester, NY. He is the author of JAW (Sundress Publications 2020) and Field Guide for Accidents (Beacon 2024), a National Poetry Series selection. He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. He has received fellowships for poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Albert lives and teaches at SUNY Geneseo and Finger Lakes Community College, where he is the Managing Editor of the Bare Hill Review. He is the former Director of Adult Programs at Writers & Books. He co-hosts the poetry open mic New Ground Poetry Night along with the poet Jonathan Everitt, which is held in person ever first Tuesday at Equal Grounds coffee shop and virtually every third Tuesday.

His work has appeared in numerous journals including Boston Review, Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, The Margins, Triquarterly, Waxwing, Zone 3, and others.