Margot Singer is the author of a collection of linked stories, The Pale of Settlement (University of Georgia Press, 2007), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in such literary journals as The Kenyon Review, Conjunctions, The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere. She has also received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Carter Prize for the Essay, and an honorable mention from the judges of the PEN/Hemingway Award. Margot teaches at Denison University, in Granville, Ohio, as well as in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, N.C. What’s defunct in her life? “Time: time to write, time to read, time to sleep late, time to make music, time outdoors, time away, time to get it all done, time to do nothing, time without the kids around, time with the kids, time simply to be.”