Separation (1902)

Margaret Lee is a poet, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, aspiring naturalist, and scholar of the ancient world. Her debut poetry collection, Someone Else's Earth (Finishing Line Press, 2021), contains poems inspired by fragments of the ancient Greek poet, Sappho. Margaret is retired as Assistant Professor of Humanities at Tulsa Community College in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She attended Edgecliff College in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from Seattle University in Seattle, Washington. She received a Master of Divinity from Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and a Doctor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia. She edited Sound Matters: New Testament Studies in Sound Mapping (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018) and co-authored Sound Mapping the New Testament (Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2009) with Bernard Brandon Scott. Margaret has written numerous articles on the Greek language and New Testament studies in edited books and peer-reviewed academic journals. Margaret worked in the finance industry in Seattle for six years, then twenty-five years in higher education in Tulsa as a faculty member and administrator. She raised her daughter and son in Oklahoma and now has three grandchildren. Margaret avidly pursues the fiber arts, including spinning, weaving, and knitting. She enjoys sketching with pencil, ink, and watercolor. Margaret is an enthusiastic birdwatcher. She loves exploring the Oklahoma prairies, New Mexico deserts, and Oregon coastal forests and seashores. Margaret is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, a fellow of the Westar Institute, a former officer of the Tulsa Handspinner's Guild, and past president of the Tulsa Handweavers Guild. Margaret is a member of the Tulsa NightWriters, the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc., the Academy of American Poets, and the Society of the Muse of the Southwest (SOMOS).