Margaret Pilkey “Peggy” is a writer living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the proud community of Dartmouth. During her teenage years, she attended and graduated from Canadian Academy, an international day and boarding school in Kobe, Japan, where at the time, twenty-four nationalities were represented within the student body.

This international experience shaped her worldview and stoked her desire for travel and service, both of which were realized after her graduation from university when she and her husband, newlyweds, accepted a two-year teaching contract with CUSO (now Cuso International.) Their first posting as secondary school teachers was in Guyana, SA; their second, in Jamaica.

Four years after returning to Ontario, Peggy and her husband moved with their two young children to Halifax. Their interest in other cultures continued to be enriched by long-lasting friendships with English Language Learners whom they welcomed into their family. Over the years, they had the privilege of hosting over fifty-five students from eleven different countries and the province of Quebec. As a way of preserving those memories and her memories of living overseas, Peggy’s creative writing often includes one or more characters from diverse cultural backgrounds. She is a member of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia (WFNS), the Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP), and Haiku Canada.