Peggi McCarthy is a lifelong practitioner and teacher of writing and theater. In 2021, she was a member of One Story's Writing Circle. Her writing has appeared recently in The Vincent Brothers Review, The Sun, Beyond Words, and online in Delay Fiction. She holds MA degrees from the University of New Hampshire and Bread Loaf School of English, and a Master of Letters from Bread Loaf. A Boston native, she helped to found a Generic Theater in Portsmouth NH in 1982; with that and other companies, she performed and directed until March 2020. She currently lives in central Maine.