bio
Peg Alford Pursell earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her fiction has received awards such as The State Fiction Award (S.C.), S.C. Academy of Authors Fiction Fellowship, S.C. Arts Commission Prose Alternate Fellowship, and American Fiction Award Finalist. Her short story collection manuscript was a short-list finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. New stories have been published in or are forthcoming from The Los Angeles Review, Staccato Fiction, Emprise Review, Precipitate Journal, The Fabulist, The Big Ugly Review, Pure Francis, Divine Dirt Quarterly, Her Royal Majesty, Annalemma, and others. Her story "Fragmentation" is the title story of the Burrow Press Anthology (February 2011) Fragmentation and Other Stories. Two of her stories were performed at Stories on Stage in Sacramento in May 2011. Her 994-word story "Project" published in Annalemma Magazine, Summer 2011, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Her poetry has appeared in the English Journal (honorable mention) and the LIve Poets Society IV anthology. She is a former board member of the Marin Poetry Center.
Peg founded and curates Why There Are Words, a monthly literary reading series in Sausalito. She is a fiction editor at Prick of the Spindle. She serves on the advisory board of Litquake, on the advisory board of TEDxMarin, and as a director on the board of the California Writers Club-Marin.
She teaches fiction writing at the College of Marin, Book Passage, and in private workshops (North Bay Writers Groups). She has a BA in education and her teaching has been honored with several awards and fellowships including a National Endowment for the Humanities Independent Study Fellow. She once co-produced “Drive-by Shorts,” a weekly radio show of ultra-short fiction, and was the fiction editor for Identity Theory.
You can get in touch via the contact page. You can also sign up for her newsletter here.
photo credit Evan Karp
Her poetry has appeared in the English Journal (honorable mention) and the LIve Poets Society IV anthology. She is a former board member of the Marin Poetry Center.
Peg founded and curates Why There Are Words, a monthly literary reading series in Sausalito. She is a fiction editor at Prick of the Spindle. She serves on the advisory board of Litquake, on the advisory board of TEDxMarin, and as a director on the board of the California Writers Club-Marin.
She teaches fiction writing at the College of Marin, Book Passage, and in private workshops (North Bay Writers Groups). She has a BA in education and her teaching has been honored with several awards and fellowships including a National Endowment for the Humanities Independent Study Fellow. She once co-produced “Drive-by Shorts,” a weekly radio show of ultra-short fiction, and was the fiction editor for Identity Theory.
You can get in touch via the contact page. You can also sign up for her newsletter here.
photo credit Evan Karp
