Margot Livesey is both an award-winning and bestselling author of literary fiction. She has written eight novels, including Mercury (2016), The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012), and The House on Fortune Street (2008), which won the 2009 LL Winship/PEN New England Award. Margot Livesey has shared her stories in her novels, but also in workshops at universities across the United States. Livesey is currently a professor of fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon, Cleveland State, Emerson College, Tufts University, the University of California at Irvine, the Warren Wilson College MFA program for writers, and Williams College. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Massachusetts Artists’ Foundation, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Her latest work is a collection of essays on craft, The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing, which Kirkus praised in a starred review for its “keen insights.”