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 in Germany. 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 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).
In relation to the defence of democracy, she’s been published in the Persimmon Tree 2025 Forum. You can read the opinion piece here. Scroll down to read!.
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, continuing custodians.
WRITINGS AND MUSINGS OF MARGARET MCCAFFREY 