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Margaret Renkl – PEN Literary Award

Posted by on Thursday, January 27, 2022 in spotlight.

Congratulations to MFA Visiting Writer Margaret Renkl, who is among the long-list of writers eligible for the PEN Literary Awards.

Margaret’s book Graceland: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South is up for the “PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay”. More information can be found here.

Margaret will be giving a featured reading from “Graceland” on February 24th as part of the Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.