Margaret Regan has a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Pennsylvania. She studied French at the Sorbonne in Paris and Spanish in a tiny school in Antigua, Guatemala, and has traveled in Europe, Central America and Mexico. After working as a French editor for TV Guide magazine and as a children's book editor in New York, she turned to journalism. Since 1986, she has lived with her family in Tucson, 64 miles from the border with Mexico. She has won many awards for her border reporting, her arts criticism, and her stories on the Irish immigrant experience. Formerly a staff writer for the Tucson Weekly, she is now a freelancer.