Margaret Renkl is the author of THE COMFORT OF CROWS: A Backyard Year. Her earlier books are LATE MIGRATIONS: A Natural History of Love and Loss and GRACELAND, AT LAST: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.

Books by Margaret Renkl

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

by Margaret Renkl - Essays, Memoir, Nonfiction

In THE COMFORT OF CROWS, Margaret Renkl presents a literary devotional: 52 chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year.