Margaret Wilhelm is known as a cowboy poet. Her style of poetry is anything but the traditional "ride across the purple sage into a bronze sunset" kind of poetry. Rather she writes about contemporary rural life in poems such as a tribute to her washing machine, an ode to a tow rope and the popular fad of tattoos. She sees people and events with different eyes and it is most interesting. Margaret lives on the family ranch near White Sulphur Springs, MT. Her resume includes English teacher, owner of a hardware store and a rancher's wife.