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Welcome, you. My name is Margot. Margot Demus. I am a Kentuckian, foodie, 'politicker,' & an honorary Manhattanite. But while you're here, you should know that I too am an academic, as well as a creative non-fiction writer & editor. Having attained both a bachelor's and master's degree in English from Temple University, my academic background centers on 19th, 20th, & 21st century American Literature, Victorian-era Literature, & Feminist plus Critical Theory.
From Melville to London, Chopin to Elliot, Baldwin to Ellison, Keats to Dickens, Morrison to Lorde, even, Hegel to Derrida, I have engaged the classics, the culture-shifting, and the controversial. With regard to the authors mentioned above, I have pored over some of their writings several times; their most canonized text or texts, I have surely read at least once.
Moreover, I do work outside of, intentionally agitating often, academic ideals, too. I practice and interrogate and analyze identity through a Black Feminist theoretical lens in my creative prose and attained a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University, School of the Arts.
I urge you to foray into my portfolio on the "home" page. There, you'll find excerpts of my most treasured, recently authored short stories, essays, flash fiction, artist profiles, reviews, poems, etc., etc. Understand, almost every piece of writing has a Black Feminist edge; I recover cultural memory; I dissect intergenerational traumas; I unpick forms of anti-Black systemic oppression. And I do hope that you enjoy these glimpses of my work.
Warmly,
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