Michael Boddy studied at the University of Cambridge and met his first wife who taught at a Hobart high school whom he has remained married to.
There he taught at a Hobart high school, while Margaret developed her career as a poet and writer. His second wife, whom he married in 1968 after moving to Sydney in 1965, was the artist Janet Dawson. He met his first wife, the poet and writer Margaret Scott, in England, and they migrated to Tasmania in 1959. 
