{{Infobox author | occupation = Short story writer and novelist | nationality = American | birth_date = | awards = Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (2006) | image = Margot Singer at 2026 AWP.jpg | caption = Singer at AWP 2026 | alma_mater = {{plainlist}} *Harvard University *Oxford University *University of Utah {{endplainlist}} }} {{Short description|American short story writer and novelist}} '''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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Novic|first1=Sara|title=The 25 Most Anticipated Books by Women for 2017|url=http://www.elle.com/culture/books/g29296/best-books-female-authors-2017/|website=Elle.com|date=5 January 2017|publisher=Elle Magazine|access-date=5 January 2017|archive-date=6 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106173253/http://www.elle.com/culture/books/g29296/best-books-female-authors-2017/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==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.

Her work has appeared ''Agni'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Margot-Singer.html|title=Agni Online|date=15 March 2022|access-date=1 November 2009|archive-date=23 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823072517/https://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/M/Margot-Singer.html|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Prairie Schooner'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/fall07/index.html |title=UNL &#124; Prairie Schooner |accessdate=2009-11-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090417133611/http://prairieschooner.unl.edu/archives/fall07/index.html |archivedate=2009-04-17 }}</ref> ''The Gettysburg Review'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gettysburgreview.com/dotCMS/detailProduct?year=2007&categoryInode=1054408&categoryName=&orderBy=&page=0&pageSize=0&direction=&filter=2007&inode=2566652&bulk=false|title=DotCMS Content Management Platform|access-date=2009-11-01|archive-date=2009-10-27|archive-url=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|url-status=live}}</ref> ''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<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id%3D06_40 |title=NEA Writers' Corner: Margot Singer |accessdate=2009-11-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090825122715/http://arts.endow.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=06_40 |archivedate=2009-08-25 }}</ref> * Carter Prize for the Essay * 2013 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for ''The Art of Fugue'', later retitled ''Underground Fugue''.<ref>[http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/1159.asp "James Jones Fellowship Contest"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921054357/http://www.wilkes.edu/pages/1159.asp |date=2013-09-21 }}, Wilkes University, retrieved 2012-09-19.</ref>

==Works== * {{cite book| title=The Pale of Settlement | publisher=University of Georgia Press| year= 2007| url=https://archive.org/details/paleofsettlement00marg| url-access=registration | isbn=978-0-8203-3331-1 }} * ''Bending Genre'', co-edited with Nicole Walker, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 (2nd ed 2023) {{ISBN|978-1-50138-606-0}} * ''Underground Fugue'', Meville House, 2017 {{ISBN|978-1-61219-628-2}} * ''Secret Agent Man'', Barrow Street Press, 2026 {{ISBN|978-1-96213-107-0}}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://www.margot-singer.com/ "Author's website"] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091126134110/http://southeastreview.org/2009/09/margot-singer.html "Interviewed by Anne Barngrover", ''Southeast Review'', September 16, 2009]

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