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- 3rd Place - Playboy Magazine's College Fiction Contest for "Elf Boy" (2008)

“The judges particularly admired the original setting and interrelationships that it displayed.”

- 1st Place - Seacoast Writer's Fiction Contest (2008) for "Lumberjack Girl"

"Our judge said "Lumberjack Girl" was far and away the best story in all the submissions. I was really impressed."
-Pam Gjettum Contest Chair

- Southern New Hampshire University - Two Year Fellowship (MFA Program)

- Amoskeag Journal Editorial Board - 2007 and 2008

- New Hampshire Council for the Arts Literary Review Panel - 2007

- Semi-Finalist - Boston Fiction Festival - 2007

- University of New Hampshire Writers Academy (Instructor - 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008)

- New Hampshire Council for the Arts - Fiction Fellowship - 2005

- Sewanee Writers Conference - 2005

- Dorset Colony - 2004

- Kenyon Writers (2003), Seacoast Writers, Utah Writers at Work

What reviewers have been saying recently about Peggy's work:

- "Peggy has a talent for drawing vivid, quirky characters through her feisty narration"

- "Her voice is extremely lively and engaging, and her charismatic characters are charming"

- "She’s a very funny writer with a great sense of narrative adventure.”

"Peggy writes from the heart, the gut, the soul, and the street. She's aware of the fragility of her characters and often puts them in literal danger, only to show us how fate/faith/native intelligence will lead them through the dark patches and back into some sun. She's fearless in this way like very few writers these days, especially (I regret to say) women fiction writers. What astounds me about her work is that she is able to present the extraodinary beauty of humanity by not being afraid to reveal the flaws, dirt, and doubt of it all. Plus, she's got a gigantic and very earthy sense of humor. A rarity these days when plumbing the darker depts of experience.

Her writing is lucid, natural, blessed with a unique pace that is all Peggy. And her characters are people we know, people we want to know, who live with us long after we've finished the story."

- Emily Heckman, New York book editor (Grove Press, Bantam, S&S, etc.)