Meet Peggy Rambach-Author, Writer, Teacher & Tutor

Peggy Rambach, is the author of Fighting Gravity, a novel published by Steerforth Press (www.steerforth.com), and reissued in 2012, by PFP Publishing (www.pfppublishing.com) in paperback and Kindle. Ms. Rambach is also author of a collection of stories entitled When the Animals Leave, published by Ampersand Press and 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, The Fourth River, (http://fourthriver.chatham.edu/), Apalachee Review (http://apalacheereview.org/) 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. 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.

Author, Peggy Rambach, runs creative writing workshops in community education settings for the Healing Arts in health care, correctional facilities, ESL programs and immigrant support centers as well as offering assistance with lesson plans in professional development presentations for middle and high school teachers. She teaches memoir writing in medical schools as part of the curriculum in Narrative Medicine and Medical Humanities. Ms. Rambach is conveniently located for teachers, students and participants from throughout New England including the Vermont (VT) cities of Bennington, Burlington and Montpelier, the Maine (ME) cities of Portland, Gardener, Kennebunkport and York, the New Hampshire (NH) cities of Portsmouth, Concord, Manchester, Dover, Nashua and Rochester, the Massachusetts (MA) cities of Boston, Newburyport, Amherst, North Hampton, Salem, Beverly, Lawrence, Lowell, Haverhill, Gloucester, Plymouth, New Bedford, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Marblehead, Rockport, Hyannis, and Falmouth, the Rhode Island (RI) cities of Providence and Newport and the Connecticut (CT) cities of New Haven and Hartford.