About

Margaret is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer whose draft manuscript explores the relationship she had with her father, a veteran of World War II. Jim McCaffrey was wounded in the Germans bombing of Greece, captured in Crete and spent four years as a prisoner of war. Stories about father and daughter can be found in Jewels of San Fedele (US), American Writers Review (2019) and ‘Write your Memoir’ at Clairitage Press.

Margaret holds an MA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, PA. In Australia, she is a member of Elwood Writers (EW), which released an anthology Every Second Tuesday in November 2020. She and fellow EW members are frequent contributors to Cover to Cover, a literary program on Vision Australia Radio. Her article about the group is published in Working Writer. Other short essays and fiction can be found at The Door Is A Jar (2020), The Human Writers (2022, 2023), oxygen6 poetry journal, (2023), Melaleuca Blue (2016), and 20 Artists (2023).

She has recently been published in the Persimmon Tree 2025 Forum in response to the present day assault on US democracy. You can read the opinion piece here. Scroll down to read her contribution.

Margaret lives and works near the Yarra River, the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people. She trusts that together we learn to take care of this beautiful, unceded territory, of which our Indigenous citizens are the original custodians.