Margot Livesey
<p>Margot Livesey<strong> </strong>is the <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of the novels <em>The Flight of Gemma Hardy</em>, <em>The House on Fortune Street</em>, <em>Banishing Verona</em>, <em>Eva Moves the Furniture</em>, <em>The Missing World</em>, <em>Criminals</em>, and <em>Homework</em>. Her work has appeared in the <em>New Yorker</em>, <em>Vogue</em>, and the <em>Atlantic</em>, and she is the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. <em>The House on Fortune Street </em>won the 2009 L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award. Born in Scotland, Livesey currently lives in the Boston area and is a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. </p>