A recipient of a National Endowment of Arts Fellowship in literature and a Fulbright to teach and research in Hungary, Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books.

Margaret’s novels include When Warhol Was Still Alive, Aftermath Lounge, In My Mother’s House, a Pen/Faulkner nominee; Cashay, a Chicago Public Library Teen Book Selection; and When I Crossed No-Bob, a Parents’ Choice Silver Honor, a School Library Journal Best Book, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, a Booklist Best Book For Young Adults, and a Mississippi Center for the Book selection at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Both When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong won the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Best Fiction, the Indiana Best Young Adult Book, and they are both New York Public Library A-List Books for Teens. How I Found the Strong was also named an American Library Association Notable Social Studies Book, and a Booklist’s Top Ten First Novel for Youth. Sources of Light is an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults, a Best Book of Indiana, and a Chicago Public Library Teen Selection. Margaret won the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award in 2011. In 2015, Margaret teamed up with Phillip Lopate to curate Every Father’s Daughter, an anthology of essays about fathers by great women writers such as Alice Munro, Ann Hood, and Jane Smiley.