Margaret Peot is an artist, writer and costume painter and the author of Stencil Craft: Techniques for Fashion, Art and Home (F&W). Her other titles include two shareable coloring books, Let’s Color Together, and Let’s Color Together: Secret Worlds with Sourcebooks and two Color, Punch Out and Play Sets with Pomegranate Publishing: Tea Party and Museum Visit, Crow Makes a Friend (Holiday House), Inkblot: Drip, Splat and Squish Your Way to Creativity, and more.

Margaret has painted costumes at Parsons-Meares, LTD for more than twenty years, where she has cut and used more stencils than she can count! Projects include Broadway (Aladdin, The Lion King, Wicked, Turn Off the Dark, among many others), dance, circus, arena and ice shows. She has taught costume painting, presented lectures on making a living as an artist, and also led art workshops for cancer survivors, elders, children, parent and teen groups, writers, nurses and caregivers, all over the United States.