Margaret Barnes Carter has been a writer and a teacher all of her life. She wrote her first poems when she was ten years old.  Writing poems has always been a way of expressing feelings and relationships, a way to make connections with others. 

She has a degree in English from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, a Master’s in Education from Old Dominion University in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Learning theory from Old Dominion University in 1984.  She taught remedial composition, writing and learning to incoming college freshmen at numerous institutions of higher learning in the greater Detroit, Michigan area. She worked eight years at Wayne State School of Medicine, Detroit Michigan helping the faculty learn how to teach and teaching the medical students how to learn the immense amount of information that they were required to learn.