About

Margo LaPierre edits fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. She is currently booking spring/summer 2026 editing projects.

She completed an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto in 2013 and graduated from Toronto Metropolitan’s publishing program in 2018. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. In her volunteer work, she serves on the executive and editorial boards of Arc Poetry magazine, is the interim fiction editor of Untethered magazine, and is a poetry selection jury member of Bywords.ca. In 2019, she was the sole recipient of the Claudette Upton Scholarship, an annual, national award that recognizes a promising editor from among Editors Canada’s student affiliates. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence for her work with Wayne Ng on Ng’s novel The Family Code.

Margo is a member of the poetry collective VII, also comprising Manahil Bandukwala, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Conyer Clayton, nina jane drystek, Chris Johnson, and Helen Robertson. 

Margo‘s poems, essays, stories, and reviews have been published in Room, CAROUSEL, carte blanche,  subTerrain, filling Station, and elsewhere. She won the 2021 Room Award for Poetry and the 2020 subTerrain Lush Triumphant Award for Fiction. She’s been listed as an award finalist for her writing by The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, Grain Magazine, The New Quarterly, The Writers’ Union of Canada, the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Battle of the Bards, and the Alberta Magazine Publishers Awards. She’s been a full-time freelance editor since January 2019. After over a decade in Toronto, and a year and a half in Taiwan, she now lives in Ottawa with her husband and goldendoodle.

She has juried for the Canada Council for the Arts’ Explore and Create literary grant program, the Ontario Arts Council’s Literary Creation and Recommender Grants for Writers programs, the Guernica Literary Prize, and Arc‘s Poem of the Year awards.

She is working on a novel and a collection of short stories. Her second collection of poetry, Ajar, is forthcoming with Guernica Editions on October 31, 2025.

In July 2021, she was a virtual resident in the Sage Hill Writing Fiction Course with mentor Yasuko Thanh. In September 2021, she completed the Banff Emerging Writers Intensive Online Program with mentor Amber Dawn. In May 2024, she attended the Sage Hill Writing Fiction Course in person with mentor Jessica Westhead. 

She gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for funding her literary projects. 

Margo is a full professional member of Editors Canada (Ottawa-Gatineau branch), the Writers’ Union of Canada, the League of Canadian Poets, and of the Creative Nonfiction Collective Society.