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Margi Fox lives in Bellingham, Washington with her family and twenty thriving blueberry bushes. She teaches technical and professional writing at Western Washington University; and she belongs to a long-term writers group whose members deserve the thanks and blame for encouraging and prodding her.
For more than a decade she wrote monthly columns for regional magazines and newspapers. She's published articles and op-ed pieces for larger markets, such as the Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle. Her longer essays have received personal rejection letters — until "God of Books" attained this honor. (Grandma would be thrilled and might even forgive her portrayal in the essay.) Currently, Margi Fox is writing a nonfiction book, The Afterlife of Wills, exploring the narratives underlying these powerful documents.
First Prize 2009 Latte Essay Awards. My uncle Henry Robbins was the God of Books. When a massive heart attack felled him at New York’s 14th Street subway station nearly three decades ago, he was also Dutton’s Editor-in-Chief. Others may have written the books, but he brought them full blown to life[...]