Margaret
Macpherson was not raised by wolves, although
her imagination tells her it would make for better
bumph. As a technophobe she's a little bit dubious
about the whole web site thing but is willing to lay
out some basics for the sake of exposing to others
another rare voice baying in the wilderness.
Margaret grew up in the Northwest Territories on the
shores of Great Slave Lake during the 60s and 70s
and has spent the rest of her life in exile trying
to figure out a graceful return to space and light.
After nearly two decade of journalistic writing for
both magazines and newspapers across Canada and abroad,
Margaret decided to turn her craft to larger projects,
the writing of books. In 1999 she published her first
book of creative non-fiction and in ensuing years
wrote and published three more works of creative non-fiction.
Her literary work Nellie
McClung: Voice for the Voiceless, recently won
the Canadian Authors Association Exporting Alberta
award. Her more recent book, Perilous
Departures, is a collection of short stories written
over the last decade or so.
Macpherson holds a Masters Degree in Creative Writing
from the University of British Columbia and has worked
as a teacher and journalist in Halifax, Bermuda, and
Vancouver. She currently lives in Edmonton with her
husband and four unruly but exceptionally lovely children.
There, she drafts and re-drafts a novel-in-progress
between bouts of poetry, oil painting and laundry.
A number of her short stories have appeared in 
Canadian literary magazines or been broadcast on CBC
radio where they have garnered a modest number of
prizes and awards. Margaret has worked as a member
of an editorial team on three different Canadian literary
journals and has contributed to innumerable newspapers
and magazines during her career as a news and arts
journalist.
Margaret is happiest when writing. A close second
is when she can talk about writing to students, colleagues
and anyone who understands the transforming power
of story. She's been known to quote original poetry
to total strangers.
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