Margot Singer

Margot Singer is an American short story writer.

Life

She graduated from Harvard University, Oxford University with a M.Phil. in 1986, and University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 2005.

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

Her work has appeared in such magazines as Agni,^[1] Prairie Schooner,^[2] The Gettysburg Review,^[3] Shenandoah, The Western Humanities Review, The North American Review, The Sun.

Awards

• 2006 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for The Pale of Settlement
• Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers for The Pale of Settlement
• Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction for The Pale of Settlement
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship ^[4]
• Carter Prize for the Essay

Works

• The Pale of Settlement. University of Georgia Press. 2007. ISBN 9780820333311. http://books.google.com/books?id=Gwrw_MfMKlAC&dq=Margot+Singer&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=7D54Xyrhnc&sig=VtreKUvYrpb38IqOjCGSELaL_lI&hl=en&ei=CeXsSt3SLY6mMOyxpYQM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CCEQ6AEwBzgK#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Margot-Singer.html
2. ^ http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/fall07/index.html
3. ^ http://www.gettysburgreview.com/dotCMS/detailProduct?year=2007&categoryInode=1054408&categoryName=&orderBy=&page=0&pageSize=0&direction=&filter=2007&inode=2566652&bulk=false
4. ^ http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=06_40

External links

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

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