Margaret McMullan

Board Member

Margaret McMullan is the author of nine award-winning books for adults and young adults. She received an NEA and a Fulbright to Hungary to research her memoir, Where the Angels Lived. Her essays have appeared in The Bulwark, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Hill, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Herald, The Morning Consult, Teachers & Writers Magazine, National Geographic for Kids, and other periodicals. 

She was Chair of the English Department at the University of Evansville, where she taught for 25 years. She currently serves on the National Advisory Board of the Eudora Welty Foundation, Mississippi Today, the Mississippi Center for Justice, and Tougaloo College. She founded the McMullan Young Writers Workshop at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, a summer program which provides scholarships to underserved high school students. Margaret has served as a judge for the NEA, the Fulbright, and for the Scholastic Writing awards. Margaret and her husband, filmmaker Patrick O’Connor help fund the Mississippi Book Festival and a prison book club program with the Mississippi Humanities Council. In 2015 Margaret and Pat began the One Book, One Pass all community reading program in Pass Christian, Mississippi, where they live and work full time.