Margaret Eleanor Atwood, OC, is a Canadian writer, noted for her extensive work as a poet, novelist, literary critic, feminist, and activist. With a career spanning several decades, Atwood has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels.

Atwood is perhaps best known for her 1985 dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale, which has been adapted into a successful television series. Her other notable works include Cat's Eye, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, Oryx and Crake, The Penelopiad, The Heart Goes Last, Hag-seed, and The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale published in 2019.

Throughout her illustrious career, Atwood has received numerous accolades, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. Her works, characterized by themes of gender, identity, religion, and climate change, have been widely adapted for film and television.

Beyond her writing, Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She invented the LongPen device, a technology facilitating remote robotic writing of documents. As an advocate for human rights, she is involved with organizations like Amnesty International and BirdLife International.

Margaret Atwood currently resides in Toronto, Canada.