Margaret grew up in the North East of Scotland and studied Sports Development and Health Promotion at University. She spent 9 Summers at Camp Blue Ridge which is a Summer Camp based in Northern Georgia in the USA as a Camp Counsellor, Unit Leader and Sports Director. She also spent 7 years in Eastern North Carolina working at YMCA Camp Sea Gull/Camp Seafarer as an Operations/Program Assistant which is where she and Jimmy the Dalmatian first met up until their return to Scotland in 2015 to help care for her terminally ill Mother which became the beginning of her journey as a Children's Author following Jimmy's actual life events.