Margaret Renkl
Visiting Writer in Residence
Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South (Milkweed Editions, 2021), which is a finalist for the 2022 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear each Monday.
Representative publications
Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South (Milkweed Editions, 2021)
Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (Milkweed Editions, 2019)
The Marigold Poems (Still Waters Press, 1992)
Awards
2020 Reed Environmental Writing Award