Margot Singer is an American

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writer and novelist. Her book ''The Pale of Settlement'' won the

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in 2006 and her novel ''Underground Fugue'' was listed as "one of the most anticipated books by women in 2017" by

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Biography

She graduated from

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for her undergraduate degree,

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with a M.Phil. in 1986 after she was awarded a

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, and

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

with a Ph.D. in 2005. Singer worked for the management consulting firm

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from 1986 until 1997, where she was a Principal in the New York Office. She teaches at

Denison University Denison University is a private liberal arts college in Granville, Ohio. One of the earliest colleges established in the former Northwest Territory, Denison University was founded in 1831. The college was first called the Granville Literary and ...

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and at

Queens University of Charlotte The Queens University of Charlotte is a private university in Charlotte, North Carolina. It has approximately 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students through the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, ...

. She lives with her husband and two children in

. Her work has appeared ''Agni'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''Shenandoah'', ''The Western Humanities Review'', ''The North American Review'', ''The Sun'', among other magazines.

Awards

* 2006

for ''The Pale of Settlement'' * Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers for ''The Pale of Settlement'' * Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction for ''The Pale of Settlement'' *

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Fellowship * Carter Prize for the Essay * 2013 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Fellowship for ''The Art of Fugue'', later retitled ''Underground Fugue''."James Jones Fellowship Contest"
,

Wilkes University Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University, and bec ...

, retrieved 2012-09-19.

Works

* * ''Underground Fugue'', Meville House,

References

External links

"Author's website"
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