Margot Douaihy

Margot Douaihy, Ph.D, is a writer whose works include Scranton Lace (Clemson University Press),[1] Girls Like You (Clemson University Press), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, and the chapbook i would ruby if i could (Factory Hollow Press).[2] She edits the literary journal Northern New England Review[3] and various Future Plc publications. Her writing has been featured in PBS NewsHour,[4] The Wisconsin Review, Colorado Review,[5] The South Carolina Review, The Tahoma Literary Review,[6] The Madison Review, The Mark Literary Review, The Tishman Review, The Petigru Review,[7] The Elevation Review, and The Adirondack Review.[8]

Margot Douaihy

Douaihy's first novel, The Stradivarius Listening Test, is a “quirky, modern take on the love story, set in New York City.”[9][10]

Douaihy won a 2018 Neal Award for her mentorship in the publishing industry, and she received the 2018 Marianne Dekker Mattera Award. She was a finalist for the 2020 Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Prize[11] and the 2019 Red Hen Press Quill Prose Award in Fiction.[12]