Margaret Morgan is an Australian novelist and screenwriter now living in the Netherlands.

To read about Margaret’s adventures in creating a new, biodiverse and sustainable garden, please visit An Urban Garden in Rotterdam.

Her most recent production was a short film about climate change, These Futures are not Inevitable, which she wrote and produced. Details here.

About Margaret…

After practising in criminal law, Margaret Morgan became a professional writer, working as a screenwriter and script editor in television for many well-regarded Australian drama series (including Water Rats, A Country Practice and GP). Margaret's short fiction has been published in literary journals such as Meanjin and Going Down Swinging. Her works for stage (librettos for music theatre) have been performed to critical acclaim and full houses at major Australian arts festivals.

Her speculative fiction novel, The Second Cure, is published by Penguin Random House Australia and was shortlisted for a number of major literary awards.

Margaret also holds a bachelor's degree in Advanced Science in Biology from Macquarie University, where she focused on plant science, genetics and parasitology and taught as a sessional tutor. While studying, she won a prize for popular science writing in an international competition judged by Professor Richard Dawkins.

Before moving from Australia, she taught creative writing at the Australian Writers’ Centre and is currently working on a number of projects, including her second novel.

She lives in Rotterdam with her family.