Abigail Kloss-Aycardi began writing poetry at the age of seven.  At the age of twenty, Star Image Publishing took on Abigail's first two books, "Love Is An Orchid" and "Deep Within Creative Minds".  Abigail continues writing poetry and maintains two blogs:  A Free Verse - her official homepage and storefront Young Poets Portal - a site to encourage children and teen writers by providing writing prompts and other writing resources  In 2011, Abigail began work on her first self-published collection of poems,  Out of Reach - A Poet in Permafrost, which she completed in PDF format in December 2011. The hard copy edition was released on LuLu.com in June 2012.   In 2014, Abigail published her first novella in a series, "Madrid Metro" and is currently working on the next book in the series, "Paris Metro".   She also keeps a blog to help young writers, their parents and teachers: www.helpkidswritehqblog.wordpress.com