Margaret Verble is an accomplished American author, known for her historical fiction books, and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She was born and raised in Tennessee but has set her novels on her family’s Indian allotment land near Ft. Gibson, Oklahoma. Verble is also a successful businesswoman, and her consulting work has taken her to various states and countries. However, after the success of her first novel, Maud's Line, she consolidated her consulting business to focus more on her writing.
Verble's debut novel, Maud's Line, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2016. Following the success of her first novel, she published her second novel, Cherokee America, in 2019, which was named by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year and won the Spur Award for Best Traditional Western. Cherokee America is a prequel to Maud's Line, and Verble's third novel, When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, released in Oct. of 2021, is set in 1926 in the old Glendale Park Zoo in Nashville, TN. Its heroine is a Wild West show performer on loan from the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. The book was picked by Booklist as one of the 10 Best Adult Novels of the Year and is a popular Common Read choice. Verble's fourth novel, Stealing, released in Feb. of 2023, has been widely praised by various publications, including the New York Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Christian Science Monitor, and Publisher's Weekly.
In addition to her writing, Verble is a consultant for tissue banks, procurement organizations, and eye banks. She has traveled extensively for her consulting work, but after the success of her first novel, she whittled her consulting practice down to one group of clients to devote more time to writing. Verble currently resides in Lexington, Kentucky, where she continues to write and consult.