Fiction, ghost writing, media management. Journalism, sometimes.
Margaret holds an MFA in Fiction Writing from Boston University, where she served as the senior teaching fellow and taught undergraduate fiction. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. Her work has appeared in The Broad Ripple Review, Nassau Literary Review, New York Magazine, and Esquire. She likes books and dogs. She lives in New York.
Awards and Honors
‘West Coast Ghosts,’ Short Story
Winner of the National Undergraduate Prize for Fiction, Princeton University’s Nassau Lit Review
“This moving, if painful, story amazed me on multiple fronts. For one thing, it is daring, its young narrator—an aspiring actor in contemporary Hollywood—at first appearing to be despicable. Only as we continue to read do we gradually (seemingly magically, so deftly is this done) understand the full desperation of his situation: self-loathing, semi-closeted, forced to hide his primary (highly inequitable) relationship due to the continued homophobia of the American movie industry. Without being didactic or melodramatic, the author presents a realistic, if nearly dystopian, world of "takers" and "givers" in a touching and ultimately satisfying story.”
- Judge Daphne Kalotay
Babies: A Short Story Collection
Winner of the Honors Thesis Award in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania
Received Honors as a Thesis in Creative Writing at the University of Pennsylvania
Dogfish, Short Story
Honorable Mention for Flash Fiction Magazine’s Flash Competition
Yellowthroat, Short Story
Shortlisted for Flash Fiction Magazine’s Flash Competition
‘Binding Iron,’ Poem
Storm King Poetry Competition Finalist