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Margaret Packham Hargrave (born 8 November 1941) is an Australian writer. She is the author of Jake's Luck (1994) and A Woman of Air (1996) – winner of the inaugural Elle/Random House Fiction Prize.

Life and career

Margaret Packham was born in Sydney, Australia and attended Sutherland High School. She studied voice with Raymond Beatty and viola with Georgiana Maclean at the NSW Conservatorium of Music concurrently with nursing at Sydney Hospital. Subsequently, she completed a BA in English and Psychology and MLitt (Middle English/Chaucer) at the University of New England (NSW) and a DipEd at Mitchell College (Bathurst, NSW) and had a career first as a Nursing academic, during which time her research paper 'Literature in the Nursing Course' was published in The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Autumn, 1986. She then became a teacher of secondary English before committing herself to writing.

Packham has had numerous short stories and poems published in Westerly, Meanjin, The Sydney Morning Herald, Cleo, Grass Roots and Matilda. A book of her poems (Midnight Fugue, Saturday Centre Press) appeared in 1983.

She has recently developed an interest in screenwriting and her first short film (A Difficult Patient) is in post-production with Tony Chu of NAFA Productions as director. Original music composed by Nathan Chan.

She is the grandmother of Australian child actors Clancy Ryan (Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance) and Lochie Ryan (Footy Legends', Gone).

Bibliography

Short stories

'The Sound of Crying', Cleo, August, 1974
'The Chiffionier', Westerly (4), 1988
'Domestica', Westerly (1), 1989
'Small Fame', Westerly(4), 1989
'My Sister's Memory', Meanjin (1), 1990

Poetry

Midnight Fugue, Saturday Centre Books, 1983. (A collection of own work)
Anthologised in: Poets' Choice, 1977; Holes in the Evening (1982), Fat Possum Press; and That Moon-Filled Urge (1985), Kardoorair Press.

Novels

Jake's Luck (1994) Allen & Unwin
A Woman of Air (1996) Vintage/Random House. Recipient of Elle/Random House Fiction Prize.

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 ==Life and career==
-Margaret Packham was born in [[Sydney, Australia]] and attended Sutherland High School. She studied voice with Raymond Beatty and [[viola]] with Georgiana Maclean at the [[NSW Conservatorium of Music]] concurrently with nursing at [[Sydney Hospital]]. A fellow student was the pianist John Boswell Maver. Subsequently, she completed a BA in English and Psychology and MLitt ([[Middle English]]/[[Chaucer]]) at the [[University of New England, Australia|University of New England]] (NSW) and a DipEd at [[Mitchell College]] (Bathurst, NSW) and had a career first as a Nursing academic, during which time her research paper 'Literature in the Nursing Course' was published in ''The Journal of Advanced Nursing'', Autumn, 1986.  She then became a teacher of secondary English before committing herself to writing.
+Margaret Packham was born in [[Sydney, Australia]] and attended Sutherland High School. She studied voice with Raymond Beatty and [[viola]] with Georgiana Maclean at the [[NSW Conservatorium of Music]] concurrently with nursing at [[Sydney Hospital]].  Subsequently, she completed a BA in English and Psychology and MLitt ([[Middle English]]/[[Chaucer]]) at the [[University of New England, Australia|University of New England]] (NSW) and a DipEd at [[Mitchell College]] (Bathurst, NSW) and had a career first as a Nursing academic, during which time her research paper 'Literature in the Nursing Course' was published in ''The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing'', Autumn, 1986.  She then became a teacher of secondary English before committing herself to writing.
 Packham has had numerous short stories and poems published in ''Westerly'', ''Meanjin'', ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', ''Cleo'', ''Grass Roots'' and ''Matilda''. A book of her poems (''Midnight Fugue'', ''Saturday Centre Press'') appeared in 1983.
-She has recently developed an interest in screenwriting and her first short film (''A Difficult Patient'') is in pre-production with Tony Chu of NAFA Productions as director. Original music will be by Nathan Chan.
+She has recently developed an interest in screenwriting and her first short film (''A Difficult Patient'') is in post-production with Tony Chu of NAFA Productions as director. Original music composed by Nathan Chan.
 She is the grandmother of Australian child actors Clancy Ryan (''Razzle Dazzle: A Journey into Dance'') and Lochie Ryan (''Footy Legends', ''Gone'').