Margaret Clark spent her early childhood in England, Scotland and Ireland before emigrating to Australia at age ten. After spending nearly a decade in South Australia, she married and moved to the Northern Territory in 1970. She planned to live in the NT for three years but stayed for thirty, working as a teacher on remote Aboriginal Communities and raising two children. Margaret later retrained in the field of architectural drafting and design, working mainly with Aboriginal organisations. A move to Brisbane followed, prompting another change in direction. Margaret spent several years in part-time theological study, while still drafting, and then worked as a Parish Administrator for the Anglican Church. After almost forty years away, she and her husband, Nigel, returned to South Australia for retirement and proximity to their children and seven grandchildren. Margaret has written short stories and poetry for many years. Her childhood in the UK and her years in the Northern Territory have provided much grist for the creative mill, as have her family and faith. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies by Friendly Street Poets and The Eremos Institute. Some of her work has also been set to music and performed at the Toowoomba Christian Music Symposium and in churches in Queensland and South Australia. Margaret mentors a Creative Writing Group in Salisbury, South Australia, and has been on the working party of the Salisbury Writers' Festival for several years. She is a member of Friendly Street Poets, a poets' collective for the writing, reading and publishing of poetry in South Australia, and was co-editor for their 2016 Anthology Many Eyes, Many Voices.
