Margaret Rooney lives in Colorado, is a retired psychologist and former farmer and rancher. She belongs to two poetry group of fabulous, accomplished women who encourage and inspire her. She says they help her grow as a person and a poet. She has been published in several Redwood Writers Anthologies, as well as The Ekphrasis Journal, The California Quarterly, The Blue Unicorn, Reverberations I, II and III and several other poetry journals and magazines. She won First Prize in The Redwood Writers Poetry Contest and two of her poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022.