The Pale of Settlement

MARGOT SINGER is the author of The Pale of Settlement, which received the 2006 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, as well as a novel, Underground Fugue, winner of the 2017 Edward Lewis Wallant Award and finalist for the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Fiction. She is also the co-editor, with Nicole Walker, of Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in many literary magazines. She is a professor of English/creative writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.