Margot Singer won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a PEN/Hemingway Honorable Mention for her story collection, The Pale of Settlement. Her work has been featured on NPR and in the Kenyon Review, the Gettysburg Review, AGNI, and Conjunctions, among other publications. She is professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. Underground Fugue is her first novel.