Maggie Master

Maggie is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times,  Washingtonian magazine, latimes.com, The Baltimore Sun and other publications. She lives in Baltimore with her husband, three strong-willed (read: insubordinate) daughters and their retriever-mix, Huxley, who she swears is part unicorn. She is currently working on a young adult novel.

Fun facts about Maggie

1. On the first day attending an all-girls Catholic high school (also my first day ever wearing a uniform), I asked a question without raising my hand. The English teacher responded rhetorically: "Well, I think we all know who came from public school, don't we?" It wasn't a compliment.

2. A friend started a t-shirt company where you got to trademark one word on your shirt. My word was and always will be: Quixotic.

3. The definition of quixotic, in case you were wondering, is: "extravagantly romantic, visionary or impractical," which I think is a rather good thing to be.

4. My mom once called the national park service to request an APB on my whereabouts in Yosemite National Park because I hadn't called her to check in the night before.

5. I once made an (in hindsight) ill-timed joke to my mom about the potential to be eaten by bears while on a trip to Yosemite National Park, the night before I may have forgotten to call and check in. At least it made for a pretty good story.

6. My first published work was a book I wrote in sixth grade about a faun and two sinister dwarves. 

7. In journalism school, I helped pay the rent by painting baby nursery murals.