Margarita Hirapetian is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

She has over five years of experience writing for various online and print publications.

Her work has been published in LA.Direct Magazine (a local Los Angeles fashion and entertainment magazine), Basic magazine (a Texas-based hip hop and urban lifestyle magazine), Vegetarian Times magazine (a national food magazine focused on the green lifestyle), pocketchangenyc.com (a trendy website covering the hottest establishments in New York City and Los Angeles) and travels.com (a high-traffic website with information on numerous travel and vacation destinations), among other places.

She currently works as a freelance writer for Demand Media, Inc and is hard at work on a fantasy novel geared toward young adults.

She can be contacted at margarita.hira@gmail.com.