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 bombing of Greece, captured in Crete and spent four years in a German prisoner of war camp.. Stories about daughter and father 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 its first anthology Every Second Tuesday in 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 stories 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).
Her opinion piece on democracy was published in the Persimmon Tree 2025 Forum. You can read it here. (You might need to scroll down!)
Margaret lives and works near the Yarra River, the traditional land of the Wurundjeri people. She trusts that together we will take care of this beautiful, unceded territory, of which our Indigenous citizens are the original, and continuing custodians.
