About the Author

D. Margaret Hoffman, author of the award-winning essay collections Saving Our Lives: Volume One—Essays to Inspire the Writer in YOU and Saving Our Lives: Volume Two–Essays to Release the Writer in YOU, is a retired teacher of creative writing, expository writing, literature and film.  She worked with kids for thirty-six years while raising two girls of her own, juggling the craziness of school and home and all the life that happens in between. Now that her girls are grown and her days are her own, she has the opportunity, finally, to survey the life that she has lived and to save the most important parts of it in her own writing.