Sophia Macdonald Author

Sophia Macdonald is an Australian writer, researcher and editor who lives in Scotland. After graduating in Classics from Sydney and Cambridge Universities, she taught classical drama and philosophy at The Open University and Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University), and worked as editor on a number of books on classical subjects for Cambridge University Press. Since the 1980s she has been an active human rights and development worker, and has written many research papers and conference reports for leading British and international organizations. She is also a harpsichordist and singer, who has sung for many years with the Edinburgh Festival Chorus and in chamber choirs in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and London.