I’m a London born author with published works in science fiction, horror, and historical fiction, all with a dark, speculative emphasis.

My short stories and flash fiction have featured online in Reflex Fiction, StrippedLit 500, 101 Fiction, The Bath Flash Fiction Awards, and in print in anthologies from Reflex Press (twice long-listed for the Reflex Fiction Prize in 2017 and 2018), Rainfall Books‘ Lovecraft’s Disciples series and Volume 1 of the horror anthology Symphony of The Damned.

My debut alternative history/Sci-Fi novella, The Battle of Watling Street, was published in 2017, and a sequel is in the works.

I’m currently working on my first full-length novel based in Belfast during the Troubles, And The Buntings Flew

About Margaret

My family heritage is Northern Irish, and I lived in Belfast as a child during the height of the “Troubles”. My writing habit stems from this period, and from the rich loam of a family and region with strong storytelling traditions. My stories often focus on women and girls facing unusual challenges and how their place in the world is a continuing story of resilience, pain, transformation and hope.

I live with a fluid blend of humans and cats. I’m a lifelong bibliophile and collector of all sorts of comics, magazines and books. I enjoy making things grow (bonus if they’re edible), travelling to new destinations with old ruins, and walking in high places. I’m an old Norn Iron mammy at heart.