Printable view of Margaret McMullan

Listed as:

Fiction Writer, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Pass Christian, MS

Mississippi US

Email:

mm44@evansville.edu

Bio:

Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books including the novels In My Mother’s House and Sources of Light; the story collection Aftermath Lounge; the anthology Every Father’s Daughter; and the memoir Where the Angels Lived. Her work has appeared in The Bulwark, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Sun, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Herald, The Clarion-Ledger, Morning Consult, Deep South Magazine, Teachers & Writers Magazine, Literary Bohemian, The Morning News, Louisiana Literature, Arkansas Review, Kveller, Verge Travel Magazine, The Montréal Review, National Geographic for Kids, Women’s Media Center, Smart Set Magazine, Yad Vashem Jerusalem Magazine and Glamour among others. She received an NEA Fellowship and a Fulbright in Hungary. Margaret writes full time in Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Twitter/X:

@MargaretMcMulla

Born in:

Newton, MS

Mississippi

Raised in:

Jackson, MS

Mississippi

RSS feed:

https://www.margaretmcmullan.com [2]

Website:

https://www.margaretmcmullan.com [2]

Prizes won:

Winner 2020 Nonfiction Mississippi Arts and Letters Award; 2020 Sarton Women’s Book Award Finalist; 2020 Honoree for the Bernard Brommel Award for Memoir from the Society of Midland Authors. Winner 2017 Independent Press Award for Best Anthology. 2010 NEA Fellowship. 2010 Fulbright to teach at the University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary. Fnalist for the Eric Hoffer Award, Montaigne Medal, The Lascaux Book Prize in Short Fiction, and the Balcones Fiction Prize. ALA 2011 Best Book for Young Adults. 2012 Mississippi Library Association Special Award. 2011 Best YA Book of Indiana. Nominated for the National Book Award. Capital Choice Award. 2011-2012 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award. 2012-2013 Oklahoma Library Association’s Sequoyah Book Award. 2008 Parents’ Choice Silver Honor, 2007 School Library Journal Best Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Best Fiction (2004 and 2008); Winner Indiana Best Young Adult Book (2005 and 2008);2006 Award for Fiction from the Mississippi Library Association. ALA 2005 Notable Social Studies Book; Booklist's Top Ten First Novel for Youth. Individual Artist Fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission.2008 Parents’ Choice Silver Honor, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist 2009 Best Book For Young Adults, 2009 Best Book for Young Adults (Young Adult Library Services Association), 2007 School Library Journal Best Book, 2008 finalist for the Willie Morris Prize for Southern Fiction; 2008 Horace Mann Upstanders Book Award, Antioch University. 2005 ALA Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. 2005 Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels for Youth. Winner 2006 Mississippi Library Association Special Award.

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Any