Margaret Macpherson is a writer originally from Canada's Northwest Territories. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has worked as an essayist and journalist in Atlantic Canada, Bermuda, Vancouver, and Edmonton. She has published eight books including Tracking the Caribou Queen (winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for Western Canada Regional Non-fiction and shortlisted for the Alberta Book Publishing Awards for Non-fiction Book of the Year), Body Trade (Winner of the De Beers NorthWords Prize), Released (shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher), and Perilous Departures (shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher). Margaret lives in Deep River, Ontario.