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Margot Livesey
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Margot Livesey is a Scottish-born author and educator whose novels, essays, and teaching focus on fiction, craft, and the practice of writing.
Biography
Margot Livesey (born 1953) is a Scottish-born writer and teacher. She is the author of ten novels, a collection of short stories, a collection of essays on writing, and co-author, with Lynn Klamkin, of a textbook. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and a number of literary quarterlies. She has served as fiction editor at Ploughshares and was a judge for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction in 2012.
Livesey has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN New England Award, and the Massachusetts Book Award. She divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Iowa City, Iowa, where she is a member of the faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa. She has taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cleveland State University, Emerson College, Tufts University, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and Williams College, and has frequently been on the faculty at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences.
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Books by Margot Livesey
The hidden machinery
In The Hidden Machinery, Livesey offers a masterclass on fiction through close readings, craft arguments, and personal essay, exploring topics from research and character creation to examples by Flaubert and Jane Austen.