Turkey
Biography
Margaret Irby brings more than thirty years' involvement in international culture, the arts and teaching to her students of creative writing. She loves working with groups comprising participants of many different nationalities and helping individuals follow their own unique paths. Her proudest accomplishments are the publication of her students’ works and the enrichment of their lives.
Margaret received a BA from the University of South Carolina, studied a semester at L’Université Laval in Quebec, the University of Colorado, and went around the world on World Campus Afloat. She studied acting in New York and London, fiction at The Writer’s Voice, Columbia University and NYU, and playwrighting in New York with Paul Selig. She received her MA in French Literature from NYU in Paris, where she lived and taught improvisation and writing workshops. Participants included both novice and professional writers from France, England, Holland, Switzerland, South Africa, and the United States.
In addition to writing, Margaret has taught French, English as a foreign language, public speaking and improvisation. She has acted in Off–Broadway plays, dances jazz ballet, loves music, cooking, entertaining and decorating.
