Peggy Shumaker
Peggy Shumaker's lyrical memoir Just Breathe Normally grew from brief pieces written after a severe wreck. Her most recent book of poems is Blaze, a collaboration with Alaskan painter Kesler Woodward. She has received an NEA Fellowship in poetry and several awards for teaching. Her work has beenpublished in Canada, Australia, Russia, Japan, New Zealand, England, and throughout the USA. She willpresent poems at the Poetic Ecologies Conference in Brussels in May 2008. Her work is being translated into Farsi for an anthology that will be published in Iran. Professor emerita at University of Alaska Fairbanks, she teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop low-residency MFA program.
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