Peggy Shumaker has two collections of poems due out in 1993: a full-length book from the Pitt Poetry Series and a letterpress chapbook, Braided River, from Limner Press in Anchorage. Her work was included in The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry and in From the Republic of Conscience, an anthology benefiting Amnesty International. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and is president of the board of Associated Writing Programs.