Peggy Rambach, is the author of Fighting Gravity, a novel published by Steerforth Press (www.steerforth.com), and a collection of stories entitled When the Animals Leave, published by Ampersand Press. She is the editor of two anthologies that emerged from her work in the field of Arts and Healing: All That Matters; Memoir From the Wellness Community of Greater Boston and Seeds of Lotus; Cambodian and Vietnamese Voices in America, both published by The Paper Journey Press (www.thepaperjourney.com). Ms. Rambach has published short stories in The North American Review, Epoch, The Fourth River, and other literary quarterlies.

Her non-fiction has appeared in The Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk), JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association) ( jama.ama-assn.org) the Boston Globe Magazine, and the Boston Globe Book Section. Ms. Rambach was twice awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant in Fiction, was the recipient in 1994 of the St. Botolph Foundation Grant in Literature, was a Fellow at the MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies, and was named a 2005 Literacy Champion by the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation (www.massliteracy.org). Ms. Rambach has taught writing to graduates, undergraduates, non-native speakers as an ESOL instructor, adults and life-long learners, and 5th through 12th graders. Ms Rambach tutors and teaches writing workshops for young adults in partnership with Peter Beaven & Associates in Andover, Massachusetts. (beavenandassociates.com). She is a resident teaching/artist in healthcare as part of the Vermont Arts Exchange’s Arts and Healing Initiative, (www.artsandhealing.net) and in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council (www.massculturalcouncil.org). Ms. Rambach is on the faculty of Chatham University’s Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Ms. Rambach’s work in the arts and healing field was documented in the award winning film, The Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health, directed by Benjamin Mayer and distributed by Fanlight (www.fanlight.com). Ms. Rambach’s work in Arts and Healing was also profiled in Nursing Spectrum (www.nurse.com) and the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center Newsletter (www.theschwartzcenter.org). Ms. Rambach's article on teaching conversation appears in SABE’s Field Notes, Vol 14 #3 (www.SABES.org)

Ms. Rambach holds a BA from Tufts University in English Literature, an MA in Creative Writing from the University of New Hampshire, and an MFA in Fiction Writing from Vermont College.