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. Her short stories and essay have appeared or are forthcoming in such magazines as Agni, Prairie Schooner, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, The Western Humanities Review, The North American Review, The Sun, and many others. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the Thomas H. Carter Award for the Essay.

Margot is a graduate of the University of Utah (Ph.D. 2005), Oxford University (M.Phil.1986) and Harvard University (B.A. 1984). From 1986 until 1997 she worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where she was a Principal in the New York Office. An Assistant Professor of English at Denison University, she lives with her husband and two children in Granville, Ohio.