Margaret Redmond Whitehead is a writer, researcher, editor, and textile artist in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Her journalism has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Atavist Magazine, Transition Magazine, Appalachia Journal, Narratively, Good Housekeeping, Hampshire Life Magazine, Tagg Magazine, and Bedford + Bowery.

Joyland, the Millions, the Missouri Review, the North American Review, The Seventh Wave, just femme & dandy, the Independent Coast Observer, the Longridge Review, and the Lambda Literary Anthology Emerge have published her nonfiction essays, with forthcoming work in the Iowa Review and TriQuarterly.

Her short story “Summer” won the 2018 Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Literary Excellence in Fiction from The Puritan (now The Ex-Puritan). Her fiction has additionally been published in The Normal School, Heavy Feather, and The Nottingham Review.

Margaret’s work has been supported through fellowship and residency awards from the Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity (2017), Monson Arts (2024) and the Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Writer’s Retreat (2018).

She was a Tin House Winter Workshop participant in nonfiction (2023) and a resident in nonfiction writing at the Vermont Studio Center (2024).

Her work has earned nominations for the Pushcart Prize (2022) and Best of the Net (2022), and has appeared as a Notable selection in the Best American Essays 2023. She was also a finalist for the Richard J. Margolis Award (2017).

Before earning her MA in Literary Reportage from New York University, she worked as a refugee resettlement caseworker at the International Rescue Committee in Baltimore, Maryland. She grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.