Author Margot Douaihy posing with ID card and a catalog at the New Orleans Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival in 2023.
Margot Douaihy at the New Orleans Saints & Sinners LGBTQ+ Literary Festival in New Orleans, LA (2023).

Margot Douaihy is an American writer whose works include Scorched Grace (Gillian Flynn Books, 2023),[1] Scranton Lace (Clemson University Press),[2] Girls Like You (Clemson University Press), a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Bandit / Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr,[3] and the chapbook i would ruby if i could (Factory Hollow Press).

The Western phonetic pronunciation of the surname Douaihy الدويهي is Dew-why-hee.

Career

Douaihy received the 2023 F. Lammot Belin Foundation Arts Scholarship[4] and the 2019 Sisters in Crime Academic Research Grant.[5] She was a 2020 Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Prize,[6] 2020 Palette Poetry Sappho Prize,[7] a 2016 Lambda Literary Award.[8] Her writing has been featured in PBS NewsHour,[9] The Wisconsin Review, Colorado Review,[10] The South Carolina Review, Diode Editions, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The Tahoma Literary Review,[11] The Madison Review, The Florida Review,[12] Portland Review, The Petigru Review,[13] Petrichor,[14] and The Adirondack Review.[15]

Douaihy's debut novel, Scorched Grace, was published by Gillian Flynn Books in 2023. It is a crime mystery novel that follows "Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test."[16] Gillian Flynn called the novel "a sneaky, dark thriller and a character study in a freight train of a murder mystery."[17][18] Scorched Grace was published in French with Harper Collins France and in the UK with Pushkin Vertigo.[19] The audiobook was narrated by Mara Wilson.[20] Scorched Grace received a starred review by Publishers Weekly: "Stunning fiction debut ... briskly plotted master class in character development."[21] Scorched Grace was featured on lists including The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice,[22] The Guardian's Best Crime and Thrillers, April 2023,[23] American Booksellers’ Indie Next Pick & IndieBound Favorite of March 2023, Amazon Editors’ Choice,[24] and Marie Claire's Best Books of 2023.[25] Scorched Grace was a finalist for the 2023 New England Book Awards.[26]

Douaihy's Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr (2022)[27] and Scranton Lace (2018)[28] are documentary poetry projects centering themes of queerness, abandoned structures and institutions, feminist becoming, and class tensions. Douaihy is a Co-Editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Crime Narratives Series.[29]

Personal life

Margot Douaihy was born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and is of Lebanese ancestry.[30] Douaihy is a queer woman and a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ inclusion and visibility[31] and antiracist education.[32]

References

  1. ↑ "Scorched Grace". Zando Projects. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  2. ↑ Douaihy, Margot (May 2, 2017). Scranton Lace, by Margot Douaihy with illustrations by Bri Hermanson. ISBN 978-1942954477.
  3. ↑ "Bandit/Queen – Clemson University Press". Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  4. ↑ Journal, Abington (August 1, 2023). "Douaihy awarded F. Lammot Belin Scholarship". Abington Journal. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Sisters in Crime Announces Winners of Their 2019 Academic Research Grants".
  6. ↑ "Aesthetica Magazine - Shortlist 2020". Aesthetica Magazine. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  7. ↑ Poetry, Palette (September 16, 2020). "The Winners and Finalists of the 2020 Sappho Prize!". Palette Poetry. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Lambda Literary Awards Finalists Revealed: Carrie Brownstein, Hasan Namir, 'Fun Home' and Truman Capote Shortlisted". www.out.com. March 8, 2016. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  9. ↑ "PBS News Hour". PBS. May 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Fireworks in the Graveyard | Center for Literary Publishing". coloradoreview.colostate.edu. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ "From Issue 14". Tahoma Literary Review. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Announcing the 2020-2021 Humboldt Poetry Prize Winner & Finalists". The Florida Review. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  13. ↑ "The Petigru Review". The Petigru Review. November 7, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2020.
  14. ↑ "#18 – Margot Douaihy – petrichor". Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  15. ↑ "Bri Hermanson & Margot Douaihy". adirondackreview.homestead.com. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
  16. ↑ "Scorched Grace". Zando Projects. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  17. ↑ "Scorched Grace". Zando Projects. March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  18. ↑ "'Gone Girl' author Gillian Flynn is writing her first book since 2012, and she shared details". TODAY.com. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  19. ↑ "Scorched Grace by | Pushkin Press". pushkinpress.com. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  20. ↑ "Audible".
  21. ↑ "Scorched Grace: A Sister Holiday Mystery by Margot Douaihy". www.publishersweekly.com. November 21, 2022. Retrieved January 22, 2023.
  22. ↑ Weinman, Sarah (February 10, 2023). "A Nun With Very Bad Habits". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  23. ↑ "Crime and thrillers roundup | Books | The Guardian". the Guardian. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  24. ↑ "Our picks of the buzziest mysteries and thrillers of winter". www.amazon.com. Retrieved March 20, 2023.
  25. ↑ updated, Catherine Jarvie last (February 8, 2023). "Best books of 2023: The Marie Claire reading list of the must-reads and page-turners". Marie Claire UK. Retrieved April 14, 2023.
  26. ↑ "New England Book Awards - New England Independent Booksellers Association". newenglandbooks.org. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Bandit/Queen – Clemson University Press". Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  28. ↑ "In 'Scranton Lace,' nostalgia for a time and place that no longer exist". PBS NewsHour. May 15, 2017. Retrieved September 29, 2023.
  29. ↑ "About the editors". Cambridge Core. Retrieved September 28, 2022.
  30. ↑ "Douaihy", Wikipedia, August 3, 2020, retrieved October 1, 2021
  31. ↑ "Margot Douaihy". The Dillydoun Review. May 18, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2022.
  32. ↑ "WLP Pop Fiction Series: Queering the Whodunit". Emerson Today. Retrieved April 14, 2023.


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