Name Margot Livesey Role Writer | Education University of York | |
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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Historical Fiction Books The Flight of Gemma Hardy, The House on Fortune Street, Eva moves the furniture, Banishing Verona, The Missing World | ||
Margot livesey 2012 national book festival
Margot Livesey (born 1953) is a Scottish born writer. She is the author of eight novels, numerous short stories, and essays on the craft of writing fiction.
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Livesey came to North America during the 1970s where she worked to get her fiction published, reportedly because her boyfriend at the time was also a writer.
Livesey's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and a number of literary quarterlies. She was formerly the Fiction Editor at Ploughshares, an American literary journal. Livesey served as a judge for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction in 2012.
She currently lives in the Boston area and is the writer-in-residence at Emerson College. She had formally served as a professor at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Tufts University, Carnegie Mellon University, Brandeis University, Cleveland State University, Williams College, and at the University of California, Irvine.