Peg Lauber

Peg Carlson Lauber was born and reared in beautiful Michigan. She was lucky enough to come to live in beautiful Wisconsin thirty-eight years ago. She has taught writing at Valparaiso University, University of Iowa, Ohio State University, and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. While at the University of Michigan for her B.A. and M.A. degrees, she won a first place Hopwood Award for poetry. While attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she won first place in the American Poetry Association's competition judged by William Stafford.

She is the author of Locked in the Wayne County Courthouse and has published in numerous small magazines, journals, and anthologies. She was the founder of Rhiannon Press and its editor for many years, publishing one of the first anthologies of Midwest women's poetry, A Change in Weather.

She has also served as contributing editor of Kalliope, judging several of their poetry contests.

Peg Lauber retired from teaching after forty years, spending much of her leisure time on the New Orleans Suite.