Margaret Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, which won the 2024 Southern Book Prize and was Reese’s Book Club’s 100th pick. Her earlier books are Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss (2019), which won the Reed Environmental Writing Award in 2020; and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South (2021), which won both the Southern Book Prize and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay in 2022. The companion journal for The Comfort of Crows—Leaf, Cloud, Crow: A Weekly Backyard Journal—is available now.
Since 2017, Renkl has served as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear on the first and third Mondays of the month. (You can read them here.) 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.
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Margaret’s Team
Publicity, Spiegel & Grau
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Literary Agent, Creative Artists Agency
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Speaking Agent, Authors Unbound
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Downloadable Media Materials
High-res book jacket for Leaf, Cloud, Crow
High-res book jacket for Late Migrations
High-res book jacket for Graceland, At Last
High-res book jacket for Graceland, At Last (paperback)
High-res book jacket for The Comfort of Crows
High-res author photo for Margaret Renkl
credit William DeShazer
Mailing Address
5421 Highway 100 #59264
Nashville, TN 37205-9998