Peggy Dobreer is an often published, three-time pushcart nominated poet, and recipient of the 2017 Poetry Matters Prize from Downey Symphony Orchestra in association with NASA. Dobreer has published two full length collections with Moon Tide Press, In the Lake of Your Bones 2012 and Drop & Dazzle 2018. Her most recent title, Forbidden Plums, won the 2021 Chapbook Publication from Glass Lyre Press, Chicago. A former dancer, writing mentor, and long-time practitioner of mystical traditions, Peggy curates Slow Lightning, a daily somatic meditation and writing practice and she is the editor of Slow Lightning: Impractical Poetry Anthology, to be released by January 12, 2022. Peggy is a Community of Writers Poetry Workshop Alum and a member of Beyond Baroque and the Long Now Foundation. View her in conversation with Janet Fitch about her new work at Birch Bark Editing. Video link and further information at http://www.peggydobreer.com.