Peggy Munson

Peggy Munson is a Midwest-raised, Massachusetts-based poet and writer who has been a Lambda literary award finalist, a Project Queerlit prize winner, a winner of the San Francisco Bay Guardian fiction contest, a selectee in Best American Poetry, and a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, and Cottages at Hedgebrook. She writes from the margins of severe ME/CFS, complicating Lyme and coinfections, and postviral illnesses in the aftermath of Covid.

Peggy has been a finalist or semifinalist for numerous literary awards, and has been interviewed on radio programs nationwide. She has also given readings by video or phone at places like UCLA and Cornell University and at Sins Invalid and The Femme Show. Her work has been included in literature, women’s studies, and disability studies coursework at Stanford University, UCLA, and elsewhere, and is recommended on resource lists by NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) SUA and SWDCC (Students with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions), the Asian Mental Health Project, the Directory of People Working in Disability and Sexuality, and other places. Peggy’s work has been translated into Italian and German, and she has published in varied anthologies from The Revolution Starts at Home to Mammoth Book of Erotica.