Margaret D. McGee

Margaret D. McGee was born in 1951 in Mansfield, Ohio. She moved to Washington State in 1976 after completing her B.A. in English at Miami University and M.A. in English at Ohio University. She worked as a car hop, secretary, academic advisor, and typesetter before catching the wave of the software industry in the Pacific Northwest as a technical writer. She attained the position "master writer" at the Microsoft Corporation before leaving that company in 1994.

Margaret's book, Haiku - The Sacred Art: A Spiritual Practice in Three Lines, published in 2010 by SkyLight Paths, introduces haiku as a simple and effective way of tapping into the sacred moments that permeate everyday living.

Sacred Attention: A Spiritual Practice for Finding God in the Moment (SkyLight Paths, 2007), uses personal stories and practices to show how a moment of close attention can be a prayer to God.

Stumbling Toward God: A Prodigal’s Return (Innisfree Press, 2001), tells the story of Margaret’s journey from atheism to a new faith with the help of both the Episcopal parish and Unitarian Universalist fellowship in her small town.

At her web site IntheCourtyard.com, Margaret shares her further adventures along the spiritual path through prayers, meditations, and other writings that spring from her relationship with the Episcopal church.

Margaret is a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Port Townsend, Washington and a licensed Preacher, Worship Leader, and Eucharistic Visitor in the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia. Her prose and poetry have appeared in such publications as Alive Now, The Living Church, Episcopal Life, Northwind Anthology, The Heron's Nest, and bear creek haiku. Her plays have been selected for performance at the Port Townsend Playwright’s Festival and at Love Creek Productions’ Short Play Festival in New York City. She is an innovative teacher, guest speaker and leader of workshops on the topics of spiritual writing and prayer.

Margaret lives with her husband David Schroeder outside Port Townsend, Washington. Their wooded property includes two labyrinths.