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Margaret Renkl

Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.


Instead of Writing, Margaret Renkl Forages for Fungi

“Always I find more answers in a forest than I find in my own hot attic of a mind.”
October 24, 2023  By Margaret Renkl
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Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere

"I pay attention to the natural world."
September 17, 2021  By Margaret Renkl
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Writing Through Extreme Grief Helped Me Become Myself Again

Margaret Renkl on the Unexpected Catalyst for Writing Her First Book
July 19, 2019  By Margaret Renkl
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How the Federal Government Saved Literature in Tennessee

On the Vital Importance of the NEH and the NEA
May 4, 2017  By Margaret Renkl
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John Lewis: ‘Read Everything. Be Kind. Be Bold.’

In Conversation with an American Hero
November 28, 2016  By Margaret Renkl
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