Margot Singer is the author of The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous magazines, including The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Conjunctions, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Ninth Letter, The Sun, and many others. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Carter Prize for the Essay, and an honorable mention from the judges of the PEN/Hemingway Award.
Margot is a graduate of the University of Utah (Ph.D.), Oxford University (M.Phil.) and Harvard University (B.A.). Before turning to writing full time, she was a partner with the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. She is now an Associate Professor at Denison University, where she directs the Jonathan Reynolds Young Writers Workshop. She also teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, NC.
