A lifelong environmentalist, internationally-awarded Margot McMahon sculpts forms of nature. Humans, plants and animals symbolizing lifeforms are fused into organic interpretations in bronze, Cor-Ten steel, aluminum, granite or wood. She has been called the “Studs Terkel of the sculpting world”, by Chicago Sculpture Exhibit for her sculptural interpretations of everyday heroes including her monument to poet, Gwendolyn Brooks. The Smithsonian, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago History Museum, Sokka Gaikai, Mobil Oil, the Chicago Botanic Garden and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Steans Family Foundation have collected her sculpture. Her collected sculptures are in the United States, Guernsey, France, UK, and Japan. Margot has taught sculpture and drawing at the School of the Art Institute, DePaul University, and Yale University where she earned an MFA. Margot has recently published with Aquarius Press If Trees Could Talk recipient of a National Book Award (NFPW) and the Mate E. Palmer First Place Book Award (IWPA). It is the third book in the series with Mac and Irene: A WWII Saga and Airdrie, a YA book. Margot lives in Oak Park, Illinois with her husband Daniel Burke and has three grown children who live in Seattle, Chicago, and Brooklyn.