Peg Alford Pursell

Peg Alford Pursell is the author of is the author of Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow , a collection of hybrid with praise from Peter Orner, Joan Silber, Antonya Nelson, Glen David Gold, and others, and featured by Poets & Writers magazine's second annual 5 over 50, December 2017. Her work has appeared in Permafrost, the Los Angeles Review, Joyland Magazine , and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW...See more

Peg Alford Pursell is the author of is the author of Show Her a Flower, A Bird, A Shadow , a collection of hybrid with praise from Peter Orner, Joan Silber, Antonya Nelson, Glen David Gold, and others, and featured by Poets & Writers magazine's second annual 5 over 50, December 2017. Her work has appeared in Permafrost, the Los Angeles Review, Joyland Magazine , and other journals and anthologies. She is the founder and director of the national reading series Why There Are Words and of WTAW Press. She lives in Northern California. See less