Margot is an Assistant Professor in Popular Fiction Writing & Literature with Emerson College in Boston. Her writing has been featured in Queer Life, Queer Love Colorado Review Diode Editions The Florida Review North American Review PBS NewsHour Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Portland Review Wisconsin Review and elsewhere. A recipient of the Mass Cultural Council's Artist Fellowship, she was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, Aesthetica Magazine's Creative Writing Award, and the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Hemingway Shorts. She is a founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and an active member of Sisters in Crime and the Radius of Arab American Writers. She is the author of the poetry collections Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr, Scranton Lace, and Girls Like You. She received her PhD in creative writing from the University of Lancaster in the UK. Margot Douaihy is a Lebanese American originally from Scranton, PA, now living in Northampton, MA. And to piece together the clues of this high-stakes mystery, she must at last reckon with the sins of her own past.Īn exciting start to a bold series that breathes new life into the hard-boiled genre, Scorched Grace is a fast-paced and punchy whodunnit that will keep readers guessing until the very end. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets, turning her against colleagues, students, and even fellow Sisters along the way. Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn't satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. When Saint Sebastian's School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos. Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this 'unique and confident' debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn).

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