Margaret Elphinstone (born 1948) is a Scottish author of novels, short stories and poetry.
She is known especially for The Sea Road, a re-telling of the Viking exploration of the North Atlantic.
[1] She was until recently, Professor of Writing in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, now retired.
Her academic research areas are Scottish writers and the literature of Scotland's offshore islands.
[2] She did extensive study tours in Iceland, Greenland, Labrador and the United States.