Margaret Dawe

Margaret Dawe is the author of the novel Nissequott, published by New Directions.  The novel was a New York Times New & Noteworthy Paperback.  She was a journalist at The East Hampton Star, where her stories won New York State and Long Island press awards.  Most recently her essay, “A killer’s trail, in hindsight,” on living in Wichita during the time the serial killer BTK was caught was published in Newsday.  She received her MFA from Brooklyn College, her MS at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, and her BA from the University of Virginia.  She chairs the English Department at Wichita State University, where she has taught in its MFA program since 1993.  She is at work on a second novel.