Margaret Fisher, an independent researcher specializing in art and radio of the early twentieth century, is the 2014 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for Scholarship in Ezra Pound Studies, awarded by the Ezra Pound Society. Her book "Ezra Pound's Radio Operas, the BBC Experiments, 1931-1933" was published by The MIT Press in 2002, a year before she received a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. Her insights into Pound's use of musical composition to create "duration rhymes" in "The Cantos" evolved after a decade of editing and engraving Pound's complete musical oeuvre with her husband and co-editor, composer Robert Hughes. In 2012 she published the English translation of "RADIA," a work about Futurist Radio of the 1930s by Italian Futurist poet and playwright Pino Masnata (1901-1968). The work has not yet been published in the original Italian. Winner of the Rome Prize in Modern Italian Studies and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, she has lectured on Early Italian Radio in Rome, Florence, and San Francisco.Based in Emeryville, California, she is currently editing the journals of the American expatriate figure painter Sandra Fisher (1947-1994). As an artist, she is recipient of the prestigious Japan-U.S. Artist Exchange Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts and California Arts Council fellowships, and a Fulbright Research Award to Italy. Her production company MAFISHCO (www.mafishco.com) has performed around the world and created a small oeuvre of prize-winning video works featured at the SONY and JVC Tokyo Film Festivals. Photo: Fisher at Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy for a lecture on Futurist Radio (2009).