Joanna MargaretJoanna Margaret is the author of The Bequest and The Daughters. Her short story Malena appears in A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, and she received her MFA from NYU, where Joyce Crol Oates served as her thesis advisor. Before turning to writing fiction, Joanna Margaret was a historian, with a PhD from the University of St. Andrews, whose previous writing and scholarly work focused on Florentine aristocrats in sixteenth-century France. Read More Read Less