Maggie Adams

About Maggie Adams

Maggie Adams believes she was born to be a writer—but it took awhile for her to figure that out. She grew up in North Carolina, then went “up north” to college (first to Virginia, then to upstate New York). Unable to decide what interested her most, she majored in anthropology, Spanish and English, and studied voice. It wasn’t until she married and her husband entered graduate school that Maggie figured out what she wanted to do with her own life.

They’ve lived in southern California, the Caribbean island of Trinidad, and now New York City—so thankfully, writing is a career that travels well. She writes “sweet” secular and Christian fiction as Maggie Adams, and mystery stories as Rhett Shepard; she also writes poetry and literary fiction as Margaret Adams Birth and short nonfiction as Margaret Birth, and has spent over a decade freelancing for multiple publishers as a manuscript reader, proofreader, and copy editor.