Illinois Authors

Peggy Munson

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Connection to Illinois: Munson is a native of Normal, Illinois.

Biography: Munson is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and essayist with Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome whose work has appeared in numerous journals, periodicals, and anthologies. She also edited the anthology, ''Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome''. She is also the author of the novel, ''Origami Striptease'', a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She has published in such places as ''Best American Poetry 2003'', ''Literature and Medicine'', ''Marginalia'', ''Spoon River Poetry Review'', ''Sinister Wisdom'', ''13th Moon'', ''Blithe House Quarterly'', ''Lodestar Quarterly'', ''Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism'', ''Best American Erotica'', and the ''San Francisco Bay Guardian''. Munson has also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, and Cottages at Hedgebrook. ''Pathogenesis'' was a finalist or semifinalist for numerous prizes including the ''Dorset Prize'', the ''Carnegie-Mellon Poetry Series'', the ''Beatrice Hawley Award'', the ''Verse Prize'', and the ''University of Wisconsin Pollack Prize''. ''Bay Windows'' described Peggy as a 'master of the written word,' and Rebecca Brown dubbed her a 'stylist extraordinaire.' An Illinois native, Munson now resides in the woods of Western Massachusetts.

Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction; Poetry

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: peggy@peggymunson.com
Website: http://www.peggymunson.com/
Peggy Munson on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=peggy++munson

Selected Titles

	Origami striptease / ISBN: 0976341190 OCLC: 63179030 Suspect Thoughts Press, San Francisco, CA : 2006.
	Pathogenesis / ISBN: 0978617223 OCLC: 181140385 Switchback Books, Chicago : ©2008.
	Stricken : ISBN: 9781135411817 OCLC: 870272537
	Stricken : ISBN: 0789008955 OCLC: 43992499 Haworth Press, New York : ©2000.