Margaret Malone is the author of the story collection PEOPLE LIKE YOU from Atelier26. The book was a Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction and Winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize.

A recent MacDowell Fellow, her writing has appeared or is forthcoming from BOMB, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Oregon Humanities, Paper Darts, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Randolph’s M.F.A. program (the best in the country in her opinion), and Humboldt State University where she received a B.A. in Philosophy. She now lives with her husband filmmaker Brian Padian and two children in Portland, Oregon.

Margaret has been a volunteer facilitator with the non-profit Write Around Portland and a co-host of the artist and literary gathering SHARE. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ford Family Foundation, the MacDowell Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and Literary Arts.

She is the host of the interview series and XRAY.FM radio show Bust the Canon and teaches creative writing through Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute and in Portland at Literary Arts. She also works with writers through one-on-one, mentoring both established and emerging writers on their projects in person and online.

A former member of the Dangerous Writers, in her heart she will always spend Thursday nights at the northeast corner of the table in Tom Spanbauer’s basement.

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