About Margaret
Margaret has been a published writer and editor since graduate school, working primarily with magazine and book publishers. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and French from Colorado College and a master’s degree in journalism and creative writing from the University of Wyoming. She lives in Colorado with her husband and their two dogs. Their three grown children are spread across the American West. The Weaver of Ur was a finalist for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s Rising Star Award and the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Gold Rush Literary Award. Margaret is currently querying literary agents for representation.
About The Weaver of Ur
Imagine a long-ago world where two women—wife and handmaid—fight for a united voice, even as the men divide and silence them. Inspired by an ancient Mesopotamian legend, this feminist retelling offers a deeper truth of what could have happened.
Amata is a gifted young weaver who longs for an independent life in a walled city beside the Euphrates. When her father denies her dreams of weaving for the temple priestess and her husband betrays her, she’s forced to betray her beloved handmaid. Now, with the community turned against her, and her husband threatening the life of their son, Amata must finally summon the courage to defy her family’s lifelong insistence on obedience—or lose the child she loves.
