Writers on Record

Margot Livesey has a B.A. in English and philosophy at the University of York in England. Margot has published seven novels:Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona, The House on Fortune Street, and The Flight of Gemma Hardy.  Her eighth novel, Mercury, was published in September 2016 by HarperCollins. ​Margot is currently teaching at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives with her husband, a painter, in Cambridge, MA, and goes back to London and Scotland whenever she can.