About Margo

Margo Rabb is the author of the novels Lucy Clark Will Not ApologizeKissing in America, and Cures for Heartbreak. Her essays, journalism, book reviews, and short stories have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Slate, Salon, Marie Claire, The Rumpus, Zoetrope: All-Story, Seventeen, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, One Story, and elsewhere, and have been broadcast on NPR. She received the grand prize in the Zoetrope short story contest, first prize in the Atlantic fiction contest, first prize in the American Fiction contest, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award. Margo grew up in Queens, New York, and has lived in Texas, Arizona, and the Midwest; she now lives in the Philadelphia area with her family.

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Here is a picture of me in the stone library at Chanticleer Garden near Philadelphia—one of my favorite places in the world—which I wrote about in The New York Times, and which inspired Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize. 

(Photo taken by my 9-year-old gardening companion and photographer.)

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