Peggy Trojan

Peggy Trojan published her first poem in 2010 when she was seventy-seven and has since been published in a wide variety of journals and anthologies. Peggy's first chapbook Everyday Love, a collection of poems about her parents, placed second in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets chapbook contest in 2015 and was a finalist for the Northeast Minnesota Book Awards. Her chapbook Homefront: Childhood Memories of WWII was published by Evening Street Press. Peggy's full-length collection Essence won publication by Portage Press. Her third chapbook Free Range Kids, published by Evening Street Press, won the Helen Kay Chapbook Contest. In 2018, Peggy compiled her poems into a 236-page book called All that Matters so her family and friends would have most of her work in one book.Peggy's fourth chapbook River recounts her life of growing old with her husband David, and how their existence was suddenly interrupted by his diagnosis of Lewy body dementia*. David passed away in September 2020. River was recognized by the Wisconsin Library Association as an Outstanding Book of Poetry for 2021 and won second place in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets' chapbook contest.In PA, Peggy pays tribute to her father Wayne Lundeen who lived a full life and strongly influenced her with his values and actions. PA won second place in the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets' chapbook contest in 2022 and Honorable Mention in the NEMBA (Northestern Minnesota Book Awards).Peggy's most recent chapbook, The Dance, is a compilation of poems that looks back at a long life and ponders the present.