Margaret Lindsay Holton, (born 1955) is a Canadian-born artist, author and filmmaker from Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
Lindsay was born in Hamilton, Ontario, where she attended primary school at Hillfield Strathallan College; she went to high school at M. M. Robinson High School in Burlington, Ontario, with a final high-school year at the Canadian Junior College in Lausanne Switzerland, in 1973-1974. She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1978 with an Honors BA that included an Independent Study Year at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Lindsay was awarded The President's Scholarship in the post-graduate Creative Writing Program at Humber College. While there, she understudied with 2x Giller Prize Winner, M. G. Vassanji.