Maggie Craig is a Scottish writer. A native of Glasgow, she now lives in the north of Scotland. Her groundbreaking and acclaimed Damn' Rebel Bitches: The Women of the '45 is the recognized authority on female involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. She has recently published a well-received companion volume, Bare-Arsed Banditti: The Men of the '45. Maggie Craig is also a contributor to the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women and the author of numerous newspaper and magazine articles.

Her first six published novels are set in Glasgow & Clydebank during the first half of the 20th century and inspired by Maggie's own family background. One Sweet Moment is a passionate love story set against the backdrop of Edinburgh in the 1820s, brilliantly evoking the poverty of the city's gloomy underground vaults and the wealth of its sparkling New Town.

When the Clyde Ran Red (October 2011) is a popular history of Red Clydeside, its dramatic events and colourful personalities. As the factual account of events such as the General Strike of 1926, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Clydebank Blitz of 1941, it is the non-fiction complement to her well-researched and richly-imagined Glasgow & Clydebank novels.

She comes from a family where writing is considered an entirely normal thing to do, and which numbers among its forebears the weaver-poet of Paisley, Robert Tannahill. ("So does hauf o' Paisley, hen." Response of wee man in Paisley Museum to the foregoing statement.)