Margaret is the author of six award-winning adult and young adult novels including Sources of Light. She received a Fulbright to research and teach at the University of Pécs in Pécs, Hungary, which she wrote about in her forthcoming memoir, and has recently edited Every Father’s Daughter, an anthology of essays by women writing about their fathers with an introduction by Phillip Lopate, due out in Spring 2015. Her novel-in-stories Aftermath Lounge is also due in Spring 2015. Visit her here.
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