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 Havanese pup. Their three grown children are spread across the American West.
The Weaver of Ur won Honorable Mention in the Historical Novel Society’s 2026 First Chapters Competition, and was a finalist for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association’s Rising Star Award and the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Gold Rush Literary Award before retitling. Margaret is currently in the querying stage of publication.
About The Weaver of Ur
When a gifted Mesopotamian weaver betrays her beloved handmaid to avoid a ruinous divorce, both women must confront their abandonment in a merciless patriarchal world or lose the chance to redeem their friendship.
Amata is a young weaver who longs for an independent life in a walled city beside the Euphrates. After her father denies her dream of weaving for the temple priestess, insisting she marry instead, her husband sacrifices her safety to ensure his own. Pressure to produce an heir forces her to betray Sati, her cherished handmaid, who was sold into slavery by her pharaoh father and left unprotected until Amata adopted her as a daughter. When a god pressures Amata to deliver the impossible, Sati suffers the consequences and must decide if she can forgive the unforgivable, gain her freedom, and create a loving family. Separated by a forbidding desert, the women fight to find their voices—and their way back to each other.
