Margaux is a French-born, Glasgow-based interdisciplinary writer. They are the author of the novels Breaststrokes and The Yellow Kitchen. In 2022, Fernanda’s Fish Soup was runner-up in the Harper’s Bazaar short story competition. In 2024, The Story of the Woman With Cold Hands was shortlisted for the Mslexia flash fiction competition.
Their short stories and essays have appeared in publications including Ache Magazine, Compound Butter, Harper’s Bazaar, Mslexia, Potluck and Wrong Directions among others. In 2026, Margaux was awarded the Jessie Kesson fellowship at Moniack Mhor for their novel in progress.
Margaux also writes The Onion Papers newsletter: storytelling in the kitchen, or an invitation to find connections between the various aspects of life, from literature to cooking, philosophy and seasonal patterns.
In 2025, together with six writers, Margaux co-launched the Feminist Food Friends, an online collective aimed at community-building and skill-sharing in the food space.
Margaux has a background in Comparative Literature and has worked as a Rights Agent for literary agencies and independent publishers for almost ten years. They have given lectures, joined discussions and moderated panels on the topics of literature, translation, writing and food, and they co-host the SPK podcast and book club.
