Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, which was published in July 2019. Her new book, Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South, will be published on September 14, 2021. Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear each Monday. A graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.