Margaret McMullan is the author of four novels, When I Crossed No-Bob. (2007), How I Found the Strong. (2004), In My Mother's House. (2003), and When Warhol Was Still Alive. (1994). Both When I Crossed No-Bob and How I Found the Strong won the Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Best Fiction (in 2004 and 2008) and the Indiana Best Young Adult Book (in 2005 and 2008). How I Found the Strong also won the 2006 Award for Fiction from the Mississippi Library Association, the 2004 Indiana Best Young Adult Book of Fiction, was named an ALA 2005 Notable Social Studies Book, voted a "Great Book" by the state of Maryland Book Consortium, chosen Evansville, Indiana's First Youth Selection for the 2004 One Book/One Community reading program, selected as one of two books to represent Indiana on the American Library Association's "Many Voices, One Nation" booklist, and named a Booklist's Top Ten First Novel for Youth. Margaret's essays and short stories have appeared in Glamour, the Chicago Tribune, Southern Accents, the Indianapolis Star, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Greensboro Review, The Southern California Anthology, Other Voices, Boulevard, Ploughshares. and upcoming in A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers. She received a Special Mention in the 2005 Pushcart Prize collection and twice she received the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was the 2007 Eudora Welty Visiting Writer at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, and she received her M.F.A. in fiction from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, Patrick O'Connor and their son, James. The three of them have work in an upcoming issue of National Geographic for Kids.