Maggie Pierce Secara was for many years the Countess of Southampton in the Guild of St. George at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire (California). She has also been active in Clan MacColin and the Kriegshunde Fähnlein, and directed both performance and costume. In the Society for Creative Anachronism, where she is Mistress Máirghrèad-Rós FitzGarret of Desmond (O.L.), for three years she edited Tournaments Illuminated, the quarterly journal of the Society.
A technical writer by trade, Maggie has a Master's degree from California State University, Northridge. She is also a working poet, with poems published in little magazines no one ever heard of. She and her very understanding husband live with their cats in cozy suburban splendor in North Hollywood, California.
