Margaret Redmond Whitehead

Margaret Redmond Whitehead is a writer based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, whose first career was in refugee resettlement. Since receiving my MA in Literary Reportage from New York University in 2016, her work has appeared in outlets including The Boston Globe, The Atavist, The Millions, Narratively, The North American Review, Joyland, The Normal School, 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. My 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 volunteer reader at Kitchen Table Quarterly and a Guest Editor for The Master’s Review.