Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most recent novel, The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, was a national bestseller, and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was Longlisted for the National Book Award. She lives in Oakland, CA with her family. (Photo credit: Melissa Schmidt)