Margot Douaihy (b. Scranton, PA) lives and works in Northampton, MA. She earned a BA in Writing from the University of Pittsburgh Writing Program, an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD in Creative Writing from Lancaster University.

Douaihy is the author of the true-crime poetry project Bandit/Queen: The Runaway Story of Belle Starr; Scranton Lace; the Lambda Literary Finalist Girls Like You (Clemson University Press); and I Would Ruby If I Could (Factory Hollow Press). Douaihy’s sleuth fiction inhabits and reconstructs hardboiled PI tropes through a queer lens.

A Board Member of Philadelphia Stories and section editor of the Journal of Creative Writing Studies, Douaihy’s work has been featured in PBS NewsHour, Colorado Review, Madison Review, Tahoma Literary Review, North American Review, Mystery Tribune, The Petigru Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, South Carolina Review, Adirondack Review, and Wisconsin Review, among others.

An award-winning editor and mentor, Douaihy holds the post of editor-at-large with Future Publishing where she explores the intersection of audiovisual technology, art, artificial intelligence, storytelling, VR/AR/XR, and pedagogy. A frequent speaker, presenter, and workshop leader, she has held teaching positions at Marywood University. Currently, Douaihy is a Lecturer at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, NH, where she also serves as the Editor of the Northern New England Review literary journal.

Honors include the Aesthetica Magazine Creative Writing Award, Finalist (2020), Red Hen Press Quill Prose Award, Finalist (2019), C&R Press Best Novel Award, Longlist (2018), Lambda Literary Award Poetry, Finalist (2015), River Styx Micro-Fiction Contest Finalist (2015), The New Guard Literary Review Poetry Contest Finalist (2014), The Belin Arts Foundation Karen Blomain Writing Scholarship (2014), inclusion in the Poets House 12st Annual Book Showcase (2013), The Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, Cut Throat Magazine, Finalist (2013), Cultural Center of Cape Cod Poetry Competition, Finalist (2013), First Book Foundation of Greater New Orleans, Grant Winner (2009), and Concrete Wolf Press Manuscript Prize, Honorable Mention (2004).

A founding member of the Creative Writing Studies Organization and an active member of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, Douaihy is represented by literary agent Laura Macdougall of United Agents.