Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Black and white portrait or Margaret Wilkerson Sexton. Portrait by Brett Hall Jones, 2024.

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton studied creative writing at Dartmouth College and law at UC Berkeley. Her most recent novel, On The Rooftop, was a September 2022 Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick. Her second novel, The Revisioners, won a 2020 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and was a national bestseller as well as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, was long-listed for the National. Book Award. She serves as Board Vice President of the Community of Writers.

Photo Credit: Smeeta Mahanti