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 Original Handmaid 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 Original Handmaid
The Original Handmaid is inspired by an ancient Mesopotamian legend, told for the first time by the women at its center—Amata, a gifted weaver, and Sati, her young handmaid.
When a royal messenger knocks on fifteen-year-old Amata’s door and invites her to weave for the temple priestess, she thinks her dreams have come true. But it’s 1800 BCE in a walled city beside the Euphrates, and her father has different plans. Within weeks she’s married off to a man who betrays her. Desperate to avoid the poverty of divorce or second-wife status, Amata must summon the courage to stand up to her husband when he threatens the life of a loved one—or lose everyone and everything she cherishes.
