Margot Sullivan
“Quiet, funny and devastating. Sullivan writes about starting over better than anyone I know.”
A woman walks out of her marriage on a Tuesday in March with no plan and one suitcase.
About Margot Sullivan
I spent twelve years as a book editor in New York before I admitted that the thing I actually wanted to do was write. That was 2016. I quit my job, moved to a rented farmhouse in the Hudson Valley, and wrote my first novel in six months of total panic.
Four books later, I'm still here. Still panicking, a little. I write about ordinary people making decisions they can't take back — the kind of choices that look small from the outside but rearrange everything. I've published with Knopf and Graywolf, and my short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and Granta.
I live in Rhinebeck, New York, with my dog, Walter, and more houseplants…
Blog
- On finishing a draft and not knowing if it worksI sent the manuscript to my editor last Thursday. I've been useless since. This is the part nobody tells you about.
- Books that changed how I writePeople always ask who my influences are, and I never know how to answer without sounding like I'm performing good taste.
- Why I left publishing to writeI edited other people's books for twelve years. Good books, mostly. Some great ones.
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