Margot Singer Explained

Occupation:	Short story writer and novelist
Nationality:	American
Awards:	Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2006)
Alma Mater:	Harvard University Oxford University University of Utah

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]

Biography

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

• 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 ^[5]
• Carter Prize for the Essay
• 2013 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for The Art of Fugue, later retitled Underground Fugue.^[6]

Works

• Book: The Pale of Settlement . University of Georgia Press. 2007. registration . Margot Singer. . 978-0-8203-3331-1 .
• Underground Fugue, Meville House,

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Novic. Sara. The 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017. Elle.com. 5 January 2017. Elle Magazine. 5 January 2017. 6 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170106173253/http://www.elle.com/culture/books/g29296/best-books-female-authors-2017/. live.
2. Web site: Agni Online. 15 March 2022. 1 November 2009. 23 August 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100823072517/https://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Margot-Singer.html. live.
3. Web site: UNL | Prairie Schooner . 2009-11-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090417133611/http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/fall07/index.html . 2009-04-17 .
4. Web site: DotCMS Content Management Platform. 2009-11-01. 2009-10-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20091027061602/http://www.gettysburgreview.com/dotCMS/detailProduct?year=2007&categoryInode=1054408&categoryName=&orderBy=&page=0&pageSize=0&direction=&filter=2007&inode=2566652&bulk=false. live.
5. Web site: NEA Writers' Corner: Margot Singer . 2009-11-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090825122715/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=06_40 . 2009-08-25 .
6. http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/1159.asp "James Jones Fellowship Contest"