Margaret McMullan is the author of seven award-winning novels including In My Mother's House and Sources of Light. She received a National Endowment of Art Fellowship to complete Aftermath Lounge, a collection of stories about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Recently, Margaret and Phillip Lopate curated Every Father’s Daughter, an anthology of essays about fathers by great women writers such as Alice Munro, Ann Hood and Jane Smiley. Margaret received a Fulbright to research and teach in Hungary for a new book Where the Angels Lived.
She was the Melvin Peterson Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Evansville, where she taught for 25 years. She writes full time now and serves as a faculty mentor at the Stony Brook Southampton Low-res MFA Program.