“This wasn’t the first essay that I read this week, but it was the most wrenching, informative, lay-it-on-the-line and kick-you-in-the-pants one so far.” On Peggy’s essay on intimate partner violence and disability in The Revolution Starts At Home: Reviewed by The Angry Black Woman blog
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Places to find my work
And Others
Peggy Munson “treads fearlessly into the viciously real,” – Make/Shift Magazine
Awards &
Accolades
Awards:
Bay Guardian's Fiction Contest Winner, Fellow at Cottages at Hedgebrook, the Ragdale Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony; Project Queerlit Prize winner, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant Recipient, Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Selected for Best American Poetry​​
Honorable Mention/Runner-Ups:
Tupelo Press First Book Competition (Poetry), Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize (Poetry) Finalist:
Dorset Prize (Poetry), Tupelo Press First Book Competition (Poetry), Word Works/Washington Prize (Poetry), Carnegie-Mellon Poetry Series (Poetry), Astraea Grant (Poetry), Lambda Literary Award
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Noted Poetry Publications
Best American Poetry 2003
Literature and Medicine
Marginalia
Spoon River Poetry Review
Sinister Wisdom
13th Moon
Breath and Shadow
Night Bringing Feathers
Marginalia
Sharkforum
Art/Mixed media
Noted Short Story Publications
Mammoth Book of Erotica
Sometimes She Lets Me
San Francisco Bay Guardian
Blithe House Quarterly
Best American Erotica 2007
Best American Erotica 2006
Hers3: Brilliant New Fiction
Best Lesbian Erotica 1998-2008
and Best of 1 and 2
On Our Backs (the book)
Tough Girls
On Our Backs Magazine
Best Bisexual Erotica II
Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary
Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism
Outsider Ink
Nonfiction/
Editorial
Nonfiction:
Make/Shift
Medium
Femmethology Volume 2
Planet Thrive
Perceiving the Elephant
Natural Awakenings Miami
Disability Social History Project
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Editorial:
Guest Editor: Suspect Thoughts: a Journal of Subversive Writing #18
Private editor for various projects
Writing the shadow spaces of ME/CFS, chronic Lyme, and Long Covid