Margot Singer

Margot Singer's essay collection, Secret Agent Man, was released by Barrow Street Press in June. She is the prizewinning author of a novel, Underground Fugue, and a linked short story collection, The Pale of Settlement. She is also the co-editor, with Nicole Walker, of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. Her awards include the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Reform Judaism Prize, the Glasgow Prize, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, as well as grants from the NEA and the Ohio Arts Council. She is a professor of creative writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Margot Singer: “That book... was not the book my father wanted. But it was the only one that I could write. It spoke the only truth I knew.”

July 9, 2025 By Margot Singer

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

Margot Singer on Rediscovering Post-9/11 Complexity

April 18, 2017 By Margot Singer

Margot Singer

Writing the Memoir My Father Never Could

Margot Singer: “That book... was not the book my father wanted. But it was the only one that I could write. It spoke the only truth I knew.”

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

Margot Singer on Rediscovering Post-9/11 Complexity

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