Randall Maggs’ poetry has appeared in a 1994 collection, Timely Departures (Breakwater Books), and in various international reviews and anthologies, including TickleAce, Poetry Ireland Review, The Backyards of Heaven: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Ireland and Newfoundland & Labrador (eds. John Ennis and Stephanie McKenzie) and The Way It Looks from Here: Contemporary Canadian Writing on Sport (ed. Stephen Brunt). With John Ennis and Stephanie McKenzie, he is an editor of However Blow the Winds, a collection of Irish and Newfoundland poetry and song and The Echoing Years, a collection of Irish and Canadian poetry. As well, he has been a long-time participant in Newfoundland’s March Hare Festival of words and music and its Artistic Director since 2002. For the last thirty years, he has lived on the west coast of Newfoundland and has taught Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook.

Randall Maggs has played a lot of hockey himself, though the Maggs who made it to the NHL was his brother Darryl.