Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups.

She sold the movie rights while still working on the book, and it was adapted as a feature film of the same name, Hidden Figures (2016).

She shifted to the media industry, working at a variety of startup ventures, including the HBO-funded website Volume.com.

In 2013, Shetterly founded The Human Computer Project, an organization whose mission is to archive the work of all of the women who worked as computers and mathematicians in the early days of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

[8] In 2018, Shetterly published a children's picture book, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race.