Maggie Barrett is a visual artist, writer, and musician. In a creative career spanning 45 years, she has had numerous solo and group shows of her visual work, most recently at the Huxley Parlour Gallery in London. She has written 4 novels, a collection of short stories and a play which she performed Off Broadway. Her piano compositions provided the score for the documentary film Pop and most recently for the award-winning documentary Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other. The film, about the relationship between her and her husband, the renowned photographer, Joel Meyerowitz, was co-directed by Manon Ouimet and Jacob Perlmutter, now screening in cinemas in the UK and Ireland.

Maggie holds an MFA in Creative Writing and in 1995 founded The Tuscany Workshops where she taught creative writing every summer for seven years. She was also a practicing therapist in New York for eight years.

Maggie is currently writing a play with Jacob Perlmutter titled “Present Tense,” and which is now in pre-production. She is also culling essays from a collection of more than 300 written over the last 12 years in readiness for publication as well as working on a new series of works on paper.

Originally from the UK, Maggie has lived in Canada, the USA, Provence and Tuscany. She and her husband now live in London.