Peg Quinn, having grown up in rural Nebraska, became a visual artist, educator, and poet who lives in Santa Barbara, California. Her poems have been published in Rattle, ASKEW, Salt, Negative Capability Press, Green Poet's Press, Callope and more.Her debut poetry collection, Mother Lode, was published by Gunpowder Press in 2021.

Books by Peg Quinn:

Other poems on the web by Peg Quinn:
Four poems
"When the Buddha Farmed Nebraska"
"Girl on a Donkey"

About Mother Lode:

"eg Quinn's book is an eyes-wide-open and sometimes humorous look at the Heartland, our Heartland. Mother Lode is a book of compassion. Quinn's poems speak simply of life with a gracious eye. These beautifully crafted poems are meditations, prayers, psalms to the place we all live."
—Phil Taggart

"In this stunning collection, Peg Quinn has her feet firmly planted in two worlds: The rural Nebraska of her youth, and the California coastline. She evokes farm folks in their stride—mothlodeed in dirt, sweat and flour, playing at the river, gathering at the graveyard. She paints them with wry humor and deep affection."
—Enid Osborn

"Peg Quinn brings the visual acuity of a fine painter to the poems of her debut collection. Her depictions of life often elicit a familiar echo and a sense of wonder in our experience of a world we look at everyday and most often don't see.These are fine poems from the very heart of things."
—Dan Gerber