Margaret Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, which was published in October 2023 and which won the 2024 Southern Book Prize. 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 forthcoming this fall.
Since 2017, Renkl has served as a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear each Monday. 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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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