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Margaret Patricia Eaton

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First name

Margaret Patricia

Last name

Eaton

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City

Moncton

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Biography

A graduate of Mount Allison University (B.A., B.Ed) and UNB Fredericton (M.Ed., Counselling), Margaret survived a 32-year career as an educator before embarking on her second career as a writer and feels blessed to be doing, at last, what she’d always dreamed of doing.

Publications

Seeking Grace: a journey through grief, healing and beyond (2006, Eagle Wings Press) – poetry

Painted Poems (2008, Eagle Wings Press, with grant from Cultural Capitals Canada) – with visual artist Angelica De Benedetti; poetry and paintings inspired by the natural beauty and history of southeast New Brunswick

Fundy: Hidden Jewel of the North Atlantic Coast (2010, Westmorland Historical Society) – co-authored with Robert J. Cunningham; historical non-fiction

Vision & Voice: South-East New Brunswick and Beyond (2011, Eagle Wings Press) – with visual artist Angelica De Benedetti; poetry and paintings

As of November 2015, Margaret has written 682 feature articles for various Brunswick News Inc. publications including her weekly “Art Talk” column in the Moncton Times & Transcript; for Atlantic Books Today magazine, and for PrimeTime Magazine, edited by Rayanne Brennan. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, including The Nashwaak Review; and in anthologies, most recently in Under the Mulberry Tree (2014, Quattro Books).

Proudest moment to date: winning 1st Prize in the individual poem category of the WFNB Writing Competition (2009) for “Celtic Trilogy.”

Genres

Creative non-fiction
Editing
Journalism
Non-Fiction
Photography
Poetry

Territorial Acknowledgement

The Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick acknowledges that the land on which we live, work and gather is the traditional unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet) and Mi’kmaq Peoples, and we honour the spirit of our ancestors’ Treaties of Peace and Friendship.