In her work as a memoirist, Margherita Gale Harris draws on her career as a Registered Nurse, specializing in Psychiatric Nursing and Public Health. Following a B.A. in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, she received a B.S. in Nursing with a Public Health emphasis from the University at San Francisco Medical Center. Gale alternated her continuing education with positions at private and public hospitals, as well as non-profit organizations, including Planned Parenthood, Suicide Prevention, Parents under Stress and Women in Recovery. While practicing her profession, she obtained a M.S. in Psychiatric Nursing, with a minor in Teaching at Case Western Reserve University, a M.P.H. in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, and training at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland.

Gale is the mother of three and grandmother of six. She continues to pursue her love of natural color and design.  Gale is an accomplished photographer and fabric weaver. She happily remarried in 2007.