“A badass, brilliant queer nun solving a murder mystery in New Orleans? How could I not fall in love with this book? You will, too!” – Mara Wilson I just loved it!” – Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books I feel like she and Camille Preaker from Sharp Objects should go on a road trip together. Sister Holiday is simply a joy of a narrator-and definitely my kind of character: flawed, dark, buoyant, and often laugh-out-loud funny. “Within five pages, I was in love with this novel. As a coeditor of the Elements in Crime Narrative Series with Cambridge University Press, she strives to reshape crime writing scholarship, with a focus on the contemporary, the future, inclusivity, and decoloniality.
Margot teaches creative writing at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH, where she also serves as the editor of the Northern New England Review. Her writing has been featured in Queer Life, Queer Love Colorado Review Diode Editions The Florida Review North American Review PBS NewsHour Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Portland Review Wisconsin Review and elsewhere. A recipient of the Mass Cultural Council’s Artist Fellowship, she was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award, and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation’s Hemingway Shorts. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and an active member of Sisters in Crime and the Radius of Arab American Writers.
She is the author of the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in the UK. Margot Douaihy is a Lebanese American originally from Scranton, PA, now living in Northampton, MA.
0 kommentar(er)
