Margaret (Margie) Winslow is a geologist and writer with over thirty years of field experience in Alaska, Chile, Antarctica, and the Dominican Republic. Her National Geographic -funded fieldwork is featured in the PBS series, “Fire on the Rim.” She has published two award-winning travel memoirs: Over My Head (2012), and The Cusp of Dreadfulness (2016). She published a best-selling animal companion memoir called Smart Ass: How a Donkey Challenged Me to Accept His True Nature and Rediscover My Own (New World Library, 2018). She is currently revising a her first mystery novel set in the Aleutian Islands during World War II.
She is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York. She is vice president of the Columbia Fiction Foundry, a member of The International Women Writers Guild, and Sisters in Crime. She resides in the lower Hudson valley of New York.