Sigma Tau Delta 2026 Convention
Marguerite Sheffer
LitFest Speaker
Marguerite Sheffer, a New Orleans–based writer, is the author of The Man in the Banana Trees, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and finalist for the 2025 PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her fiction appears in leading journals including Asimov’s Science Fiction and BOMB. She teaches at Tulane University and co-founded the writing collectives Third Lantern Lit and Wildcat Writing Group.
About the Author
Marguerite Sheffer is a writer who lives in New Orleans. Her collection The Man in the Banana Trees (University of Iowa Press, 2024) won the Iowa Short Fiction Award, was a Finalist for the 2025 PEN America Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection, and was named a “Best Debut Book” by Debutiful and a “Most Exciting Debut Story Collection” by Electric Literature. Her short fiction appears in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Cincinnati Review, Epiphany, BOMB, Literary Hub and other magazines. At Tulane University Marguerite teaches courses in design thinking and speculative fiction as tools for social change. She is a founding member of Third Lantern Lit, a New Orleans writing collective, and the Wildcat Writing Group.