Margaret Peggy Reid has worked as an English language proofreader at the University of St. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje since 1969. She has proofread, among other things, numerous literary works – plays, poetry and novels. She is the recipient of the Struga Poetry Evenings Award for translation into a foreign language. In 1994, she was awarded the Macedonian Society of Literary Translators' Award; she has twice won first prize for her poetry at the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival in Great Britain, and a certificate from Queen Elizabeth II for services to Macedonian literature and culture.