Margot Singer

Summary

Margot Singer is an American short story writer and novelist. Her book The Pale of Settlement won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2006 and her novel Underground Fugue was listed as "one of the most anticipated books by women in 2017" by Elle Magazine.[1]

Margot Singer
OccupationShort story writer and novelist
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Notable awardsFlannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2006)

Biography edit

She graduated from Harvard University for her undergraduate degree, Oxford University with a M.Phil. in 1986 after she was awarded a Marshall Scholarship, and University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 2005.

Singer worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company from 1986 until 1997, where she was a Principal in the New York Office.

She teaches at Denison University in Granville, Ohio and at Queens University of Charlotte. She lives with her husband and two children in Granville, Ohio.

Her work has appeared Agni,[2] Prairie Schooner,[3] The Gettysburg Review,[4] Shenandoah, The Western Humanities Review, The North American Review, The Sun, among other magazines.

Awards edit

Works edit

  • The Pale of Settlement. University of Georgia Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-8203-3331-1. Margot Singer.
  • Underground Fugue, Meville House, ISBN 978-1-61219-628-2

References edit

  1. ^ Novic, Sara (5 January 2017). "The 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017". Elle.com. Elle Magazine. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Agni Online". 15 March 2022. Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
  3. ^ "UNL | Prairie Schooner". Archived from the original on 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
  4. ^ "DotCMS Content Management Platform". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
  5. ^ "NEA Writers' Corner: Margot Singer". Archived from the original on 2009-08-25. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
  6. ^ "James Jones Fellowship Contest" Archived 2013-09-21 at the Wayback Machine, Wilkes University, retrieved 2012-09-19.

External links edit

  • "Author's website"
  • "Interviewed by Anne Barngrover", Southeast Review, September 16, 2009