Career
She is the former editor of Exact Sciences, the Evening Standard magazine (British Society of Magazine Editors, Editor of the Year, Colour Supplements 1989) and British Elle magazines. In Australia, she was acting editor of Cleo and editor of Mode. In 1996 she joined the Sydney Morning Herald as a Senior Writer and for many years covered the fashion shows in Paris, Milan and London for the paper.
Her weekly column, on a loose fashion and style theme, has appeared in Good Weekend (the Saturday magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers) for over ten years.
She has also had a similar column in The Times, in the United Kingdom. On 4 November 2010, it was announced that Alderson"s column would no longer be appearing in Good Weekend. The internationally bestselling Girls Night In "chick lit" anthology series she co-edited with author Jessica Adams and columnist Imogen Edwards-Jones made millions for the charity War Child.
She was co-editor, with Jessica Adams, Imogen Edwards-Jones and Kathy Lette, of In Bed With, a collection of erotic short stories written by leading female novelists (Fay Weldon, Joanne Harris, Ali Smith, Esther Freud, Justine Picardie, among others). Maggie Alderson has an Master of Arts in Art History from the University of Street Andrews.
Shoe Money (1998)
Handbag Heaven (2001)
Gravity Sucks (2007)
Style Notes (2011).
