Margo Orlando Littell

Margo Orlando Littell grew up in a coal-mining town in southwestern Pennsylvania. She is the author of the Appalachian novels The Distance from Four Points and Each Vagabond by Name, which won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize and an IPPY Gold Medal. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The New Guard, Embark: A Literary Journal for Novelists, Compose, Monkeybicycle, Real Pants, the Beloit Fiction Journal, and other places. She edits interviews for Newfound Journal, writes book reviews for the City Book Review.