Margot Douaihy

Margot Douaihy is a Lebanese American originally from Scranton, now living in Northampton, MA. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in the UK. She is the author of the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and an active member of the Radius of Arab American Writers. She was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Poetry, Aesthetica Magazine’s Creative Writing Award, and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation’s Hemingway Shorts. Her writing has been featured in Queer Life, Queer Love; Colorado Review; Diode Poetry Journal; Florida Review; North American Review; PBS NewsHour; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Portland Review; Wisconsin Review; ONE ART; and elsewhere. Margot teaches at Cambridge University’s Centre for Creative Writing, and at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH, where she also serves as the editor of the Northern New England Review.