Margaret Reynolds was born in England and emigrated to Canada in 1966 with her family. Margaret worked for several small publishing companies before becoming marketing manager for Douglas & McIntyre, the then largest English-language publishing company outside Ontario. She was the executive director of the Association of Book Publishers of BC, a trade association that represents the interests of BC- owned and controlled publishing companies, from 1988 – 2016 steering many important projects to fruition and advocating for policy directives and programs to support the members.

Margaret has served on many book-related and arts boards including the BC BookWorld Society, the Alliance for Arts & Culture, City of Vancouver Arts and Culture Policy Space subcommittee and The Word On The Street (now WORD Vancouver), where she was the organization’s first president. Margaret received a Distinguished Service Award from the BC Teacher-Librarians’ Association in 1999 and in 2002 the Gray Campbell Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the publishing industry in British Columbia. In 2016, she was nominated for a Metro Vancouver YWCA Women of Distinction Award (Arts & Culture) and received the Association on Canadian Publisher’s President’s Award for her support of Canadian publishers. Margaret completed a Master’s degree in Liberal Studies from Simon Fraser University in 2003.