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Peggy Rambach

Peggy Rambach is the author of Fighting Gravity, a novel based on her marriage to writer, Andre Dubus, and a collection of short stories entitled When the Animals Leave. She is the editor of Seeds of Lotus; Cambodian and Vietnamese Voices in America,  also published by The Paper Journey Press. She was twice awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant in Fiction, was the recipient of the St. Botolph Foundation Grant in Literature, was a Fellow at the MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies and named a 2005 Literacy Champion by the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation. Ms. Rambach, is a resident teaching/artist in healthcare with grant support from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center as part of the Healing Arts; New Pathways to Health and Community project in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Vermont Arts Exchange.

Her essay "Painting Amy's Nails" was recently featured in the UK Guardian. Read this incredibly poignant story.

She lives in Andover, Massachusetts.