Maggie was born in Stratford, Ontario . She has worked in mental health, health research and forensic investigations. She lived in Kitchener, Waterloo and Toronto, then spent twenty interesting years in Winnipeg, fifteen years on Vancouver Island and she now lives and writes near Commanda Ontario. Her work WRAP YOUR TROUBLES IN DREAMS  won a 3rd place in short fiction in ROOM (1994), ONCE  MORE WITH FEELING  was selected for the CBC Festival of fiction by Carol Shields (1999) and CHIHUAHUA was a finalist for the Carter V. Cooper prize in Exile, Volume 40 No.2, in  2016.  She has TWUC readings at UBC, RED RIVER COLLEGE and has conducted fiction workshop in Chacala, Mexico.