Margaret Cameron Davies Carner was a professor of theatre arts at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock from about 1966 to 1990. She was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas to F. F. Davies and Harriet Aline Lower. She later moved with her family to Little Rock where her father worked as a broker in the first offices of Fenner and Beene and her mother was a homemaker. She graduated from Little Rock High School, now Little Rock Central High School, in 1941. After receiving her associate degree from Little Rock Junior College, she enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago where she received her Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts and later her Masters with emphasis in theatre directing. Most of her classes were in the Goodman Theatre Department, a part of the institute.
After school she began a career that included several summer stock productions and theatre performances in several states. Due to a family illness she and her husband, Joseph Carner, returned to Little Rock where Margaret started her teaching career, first as a kindergarten teacher at the Arkansas School for the Blind. At the Arkansas School for the Blind, she began a children's theatre production for the blind children. While teaching at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, she was instrumental in developing the childrens' theatre program that was incorporporated into the theatre program curriculum.
She taught acting, stage diction, directing, and (mime and) stage movement. Due to her love of the arts and all people she also took time to teach speech and diction to the inmates of the Wrightsville Corrections Facility.
She was also an honorary member of the Pulaski County Bar Association, a member of Little Rock Women's Aesthetic Club, Trinity Episcopal Catherdral and a descendent of an Arkansas Pioneer Family.