Margaret Benbow's stories have appeared in many magazines and anthologies. She's won numerous awards for both stories and poems. Benbow received Pushcart nominations, an Arts Board grant, Library Association award, the Paula Chandler Prize, the Walt McDonald First Book Award for a poetry collection, Zona Gale Award, and many others. Most recently, she received the New Rivers Many Voices Project prize for fiction. She's now writing a novel in linked stories about outsider artists, whom she admires very much: their struggles, loves, enemies, incredible persistence, and occasional startling triumphs against all odds.
