Growing up in Lochcarron, where her father was the headmaster of the local school, she developed a life long love of Gaidhlig culture, folk music, singing, story telling and poetry and this informed her later work as a writer.

Morag MacIver Ross was born in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland in July 1941.

[4] As a primary school teacher in the Isle of Skye in 1985, she was selected to put together a collection of 48 songs from every region of Scotland to form the educational musical resource Sing Around Scotland, produced by Ward Lock Educational.

[4] Morag Henriksen performed in the first production by the Uiseag Theatre Group in 1999 at Aros, Portree, Isle of Skye.

[12] Henriksen was part of the research for ATLAS Arts' project Ragadawn and participated in the artist Caroline Bergvall's language station at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in 2017, which became part of the final work performed in August 2018.