Margaret McDonald

Margaret McDonald is a 27-year-old Scottish author from Glasgow. She is published in the disability-focused magazine Breath and Shadow as well as the prose and poetry magazines Bandit Fiction, Bubble Lit, In Parentheses, and The Manifest Station. Margaret worked for the NHS after shielding for a year, during which time she finished her Masters in English literature from Glasgow University with Distinction. She also has a First Class BA (Hons) from Strathclyde University, where she studied writing. Margaret worked with a children's therapist who grew up in the care system, as well as a Polish author, on ensuring the care system and immigrant Polish identity in Glasgow Boys were authentic. She expertly weaves her own experiences into the novel, of her working-class Scottish background, her Crohn's disease diagnosis, her pain medication dependency, her experience working for the NHS, her partner's work with social services, their plans to become foster carers and much more.