Martha Pregal migrated to Australia with her family in 1965. She has lived in Melbourne, and since her retirement she has dedicated herself to poetry. She completed a course on professional writing at RMIT, has run the Melbourne-based literary workshop 'Ateneo,' and has been a member of the literary and artistic group 'Germinal.' Pregal contributed to the anthology
Twigs and Leaves: Stories from the Family Tree in 1997 and her work has been published in
The Big Issue and
Roomers, a magazine for distribution in rooming houses to which Pregal has contributed the regularly appearing 'Martha's Column'. (From
Over the Horizon, p. 219 and
Spanish Fiction Writing in Australia, p. 47)
