Margarite Landry’s novel manuscript, BLUE MOON, won the James Jones First Novel Fellowship for a novel in progress. Her short stories have received prizes and commendations from numerous literary magazines: GlimmerTrain, Northern Colorado Writers, Dana Awards, New Millenium Writings, the Tennessee Williams Festival, and others.

Margarite has taught English and creative writing at Fitchburg State University, where as an associate professor she was known by students as a very forgiving grader. She has also worked as a medical writer. The story “Panic” is based on her earlier experiences as a medical writer for Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Department of Psychiatry in New York City.

She has an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a PhD in English from Columbia University. Like most writers, she has worn many occupational hats: paralegal in an adoption agency in Beverly Hills, volunteer for foster care in Massachusetts, phone answerer for a major publishing house publicity department in LA, theater critic for a small city newspaper, ghost writer for several books, adjunct at Hunter College and NYU, and book reviewer for The Nation.

Margarite also loves to travel, and has visited a number of countries ending in –ia. India, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Armenia, Macedonia, Serbia, Russia, and countries not ending in –ia: Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, France (repeatedly), Kosovo, Argentina and the very beautiful Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

She lives with her husband, the sculptor Joe Landry, and family in Massachusetts.