Welcome to my work!
I named my process WRITE IN THE BEAT because movement or dancing opens my creative pathways and helps me unleash my stories. Then, I write from a freed imagination, expressing what’s in my heart and bones.
My travel essays and poetry have been published in a variety of online and print publications. I’ve also been interviewed for a few podcasts. Below is a selection of my work…I hope it resonates with you.
Podcasts
Condé Nast Traveler Women Who Travel Podcast
Interviewed by Lale Arikoglu
The Ageless Traveler Podcast – Live soon!
Interviewed by Adriane Berg
Travel Essays
Arcturus Magazine Chicago Review of Books’ online literary magazine
Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards Bronze Winner, Women’s Travel Category
Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards Bronze Winner, Elder Travel Category
A Shared Indian Cake Is Never Forgotten
Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards Silver Winner, Doing Good or the Kindness of Strangers Category
University of San Francisco’s The Ignatian Literary Magazine
(Past Issues, Metamorphosis, Volume 34, Spring 2022, page 17 online)
Retrieving an Etched Mother and Child
JONAHmagazine, July 2023, Creative Non-Fiction
(scroll down to second from bottom)
Other Awards/Print Publications
‘She loved Glasgow’: Woman retraces mother’s 1951 European trip
GlasgowTimes
Ann Fotheringham, senior features writer, interviews Margaret about her visit to Glasgow, Scotland in November 2022.
Paying Attention
Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards Silver Winner, Travel and Shopping Category
Lost and Found in Venice
Open Ceilings
A literary magazine by Mechanism Press, University of California, Davis
Summer 2024
Poetry Online
Cacti Fur
Coachella Review
Ghost City Review
(scroll to last poem at bottom of page)
Mt. Hood Community College’s Perceptions Magazine
(go to Bookshelf, then Perceptions 2021)
pioneertown.
Raw Journal of the Arts
(go to Issue 7, fourth poem)
The Opiate
Poetry Print Publications
Flow
He Wore Spurs
Evening Street Review
(Issue #34; Summer, 2022)
Railroad-Track Scars
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Steam Ticket, A Third Coast Review
(Volume 24, Spring 2021)
Crow at the Fountain
Voices de la Luna, February 2023, Volume 15, Number 2
Margaret visited The Cloisters, also known as the Undercroft, at the University of Glasgow in November, 2022. Her mother was there in 1951.
At the Cloisters in Glasgow, I felt
the surge of my mother’s love
of Christmas decorations and
a spirit of magic.