Abby Wojcik

Welcome! My name is Abby. I'm a freelance writer and the Admissions and Marketing Coordinator at Chesterfield Montessori School. I have a bachelor of arts in English and creative writing with a minor in women and gender studies from Canisius College. I've also completed the internationally-recognized AMI Certificate for Montessori Core Principles, where I studied Montessori theory and philosophy across various life stages.

I'm passionate about journalism, poetry, art and all things local and sustainable. Usually, I can be found biking to a local coffee shop for an iced vanilla latte!

abigailnoone@gmail.com

Blog • May 2019

Gather & Game - Immersion Project

Molly’s aesthetic was Mardi Gras Halloween. She was like a Powerpuff girl, short and sweet and everything nice. Her attire consisted of layers of color. She wore black tights with a pink, glittery tutu of a skirt, a black t-shirt with a tan cardigan, which was also full of glitter. She accessorized herself with Mardi Gras beads, as well as pink and green bows in her short, faded, pink-dyed hair. Apparently, she got to dye it for Halloween, but it hadn’t washed out yet.

Blog • October 2018

Deaf people have a voice: Time to listen - Features Writing Project

David Wantuck is a community engagement specialist at DAS, and he is Deaf himself. Wantuck comes from a large Deaf family in Buffalo. He has Deaf parents, a plethora of Deaf family members, and a Deaf wife. As a Deaf individual, he is both passionate about Deaf advocacy and his role at DAS.

Blog • April 2021

Thoughts on Celebrity Poetry: Poetry is for Everyone

Celebrities should use their platform to recognize struggling poets, poets who look and write differently than them, other living poets, poets with stories they could never tell. It's about lifting each other up, reading and sharing each other’s work. Without this crucial piece, we aren’t a community, we are writers in solitude, and that’s not what poetry is. That’s not what I want poetry to be.

Blog • October 2020

What I'm Reading: Peach Mag

For some reason, Peach Mag excited me and my friends so much. We were all in the English and creative writing program at Canisius, so we were already interested in literary arts in general. Peach Mag not only showed us that there was a place for that interest, but also that this place existed in Buffalo.

Blog • October 2020

A Conscious Closet and a Just Society

We, as consumers, have immense power in our purchases. We have the power to decide what’s important to us, just by being conscious of where and how we spend money. Companies respond to consumers, not the other way around.

My Art • September 2020

The Griffin Office

Blog • June 2020

What I’m Reading: Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi

Sometimes memoirs speak to me more than a work of fiction because the writer is able to pull a similar sense of meaning out of their actual lives. The next time you come across a memoir, don’t be so quick to write it off as a boring biography. They typically read as easily, creatively and beautifully as novels. Especially if it’s by someone you’re already interested in, you’re likely to enjoy their memoir.

My Art • March 2020

Killer in a peach vase

watercolor, 2020 This is a watercolor painting of a plant in my home named Killer. It gets its namesake from its reputation of never dying. It only needs a splash of water every few days very little sunlight. As someone more practiced in acrylic paint, I am proud of how this turned out. I am trying to get better with watercolor.