Margaret Whitehead
Summer Precollege Programs Creative Writing Instructor
Margaret Redmond Whitehead is a writer based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, whose work has appeared in outlets including The Boston Globe, The Atavist, The Millions, Narratively, The North American Review, Joyland, The Missouri Review, and Appalachia. She is honored to be an alum of the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, the Tin House Winter Workshop, Lambda Literary, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her short story “Summer” won the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in 2018, and her essay “Evidence of Two Kinds” was chosen as a notable mention in the Best American Essays 2023. She is a guest editor for The Master’s Review.
Photo courtesy of the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity