Margot Silk Forrest is an author, artisan, speaker, and crafts teacher. Her mission in life is to add love to the world.
Margot is the author of Sassy Feet! How to Paint, Bead, Bedeck, and Embellish Your Shoes and A Short Course in Kindness.
She is co-author of The Soul in the Computer: Story of a Corporate Revolutionary , and EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress and Trauma.
Margot was also the founder of "The Healing Woman", an acclaimed newsletter and international self-help organization for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. She was formerly a top-ranked manager at Hewlett-Packard, and a news editor for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times-Herald, and the Philadelphia Bulletin. She lives in Central California.
Margot's Journey to Authorship, Kindness, and the Shoe-It-Yourself Movement
Like all good writers, Margot has had an abundance of unusual jobs in addition to those that appear on her resume. These include freelance photographer, fabric artist, seamstress, ski lodge bookkeeper, photography columnist, tour guide, barmaid in a GI bar, and sales clerk at Liberty's of London. In her spare time, she sews, paints, reads mysteries, plays with her cats, adores her partner, and enjoys all the benefits of living in one of the most beautiful places in the world-the coast of California.Margot grew up in Philadelphia and attended Sarah Lawrence College in New York and Williams College in Massachusetts. Following her graduation she traveled extensively in Europe where she lived and worked for the next six years.