Fiction, ghostwriting, 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 Smokelong Quarterly, Princeton’s Nassau Literary Review, New York Magazine, and elsewhere. She likes books and dogs.
Awards and Honors
“Enna’s Daughter,” Short Story
Winner of the Intrepid Voices Fund for an Emerging Writer 2025
“Hula Girl,” Short Story
Runner-Up for the 2025 Prize for Innovative Narration
“Very impressed indeed by this entry, moved as well. I note the way that the voice works from deep within the matter of the story, without a trace of management or contrivance: great assurance here. And it strikes me that there’s almost a novel’s worth of fictional matter, compressed with great emotional power, yet propulsive in the telling, with admirable control of tempo. The social content got this reader in the heart, as Jo’s life declines from driving to prostitution and alcoholism, when a series of men prey on her poverty (and on her need to support her ill mother)… I’d repeat that this is a remarkably compact tragedy. The rendering of minor character, and the descriptive work, are accomplished throughout… There is obvious talent in the writer of ‘Hula Girl’, and I wish them success.”
- Judge Michael Nath
Kinds of Closeness, Novel Opening
Commendation from the Marlowe and Christie Prize
“Lucie and Selene,” Short Story
Shortlisted for The Letter Review’s Fall 2025 Short Story Competition
“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, 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