Margaret Evans grew up in England and emigrated to Canada in 1969. She began her writing career immediately and today writes magazine and newspaper articles, current affairs columns, and books. She is an avid photographer and her photographs have been used as illustrations in her books and articles. She has won four awards for her writing work. Her book ZOOFOLK written for the Greater Vancouver Zoo won the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian Zoo Association.
Her photography has been exhibited in an art gallery showing and she curated a museum exhibit on the evolution of horses for the Chilliwack Museum.
Margaret divides her time between writing, editing services, giving writing courses, speaking, and giving multimedia presentations on horses, bears, climate change and the challenges facing our oceans. Her book HEART OF A HOOFBEAT explores the natural behaviour of horses and it will be available as an ebook in early 2017.
Her latest book is an eBook GET IT WRITE! 50 Tips to Help with your Writing Success. It is designed to help writers get going and keep going with their writing projects. Margaret also writes a free monthly newsletter GET IT WRITE which offers tips, ideas and market information for writers.
Like many writers, Margaret always has several projects on the go and she expects to release new publications in 2017.
Margaret lives on an acreage in Chilliwack, British Columbia, with her family, four horses, two dogs, and a cat.