Visiting Author Series
Peggy Schumaker
Former Alaska Poet Laureate
Cairn: New and Selected Poems
Peggy Shumaker is the daughter of two deserts—the Sonoran desert where she grew up and the subarctic desert of interior Alaska where she lives now. She served as Alaska State Writer Laureate and received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Shumaker is the author of eight books of poetry, including Cairn: New and Selected Poems, as well as her lyrical memoir Just Breathe Normally. Professor emerita from University of Alaska Fairbanks, Shumaker teaches in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA at PLU. Shumaker is editor of the Boreal Books series (an imprint of Red Hen Press), editor of the Alaska Literary Series at University of Alaska Press, poetry editor of Persimmon Tree, and contributing editor for Alaska Quarterly Review.
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