Margaret Hermes
Margaret Hermes grew up in Chicago and currently lives in Saint Louis. Her short fiction collection, Relative Strangers, was the recipient of the Doris Bakwin Award. In addition to dozens of stories that have appeared in journals such as Fiction International, the Laurel Review, Confrontation, River Styx, and the Literary Review, and anthologies such as 20 Over 40 and Under the Arch, her published and performed work includes a novel, The Phoenix Nest, and a stage adaptation of an Oscar Wilde fable. When not writing, Hermes concentrates her energies on environmental issues.
