About Margy

A children’s book writer and career educator, Margy Burns Knight has received the National Education Association’s Author-Illustrator Human & Civil Rights Award for the body of her work with Anne Sibley O'Brien (TALKING WALLS and other books) and the 2001 Children's Africana Book Award for AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY. In addition to her work as an author, presenting in hundreds of classrooms around the world, Margy is also a teacher and community volunteer. She is the Service Learning Coordinator for the Winthrop, Maine public school system and has taught English as a Second Language to high school students from Cambodia, Afghanistan and Jordan. To celebrate the release of TALKING WALLS: THE STORIES CONTINUE, she launched a community mural project that continues to thrive today. Margy has helped to coordinate the painting of nine community murals in her town.

A Peace Corps veteran, Margy and her family have hosted exchange students from Thailand, Cote D’Ivoire, Senegal and France. When she is not writing or working in schools, you can find Margy outside enjoying one of her favorite activities: biking, snowshoeing, hiking, playing tennis, skating or swimming.

To view Margy's resume, please click here.