She has an MFA in creative writing from American University. She serves as one of the editors of the Comstock Review, a longstanding poetry journal. Peggy leads poetry workshops. She has published 3 chapbooks and two full length collections, What the Blood Knows and Stone Being. Peggy was a research assistant working in biochemistry for the USDA. Her poetry is often inspired by the sciences, the fascination evoked thereof, the transcendent spirit in everyday lives.