Peggy King Anderson

Peggy King Anderson has been writing for children for twenty-five years and has had over a hundred stories published in children’s magazines.   She writes a regular fiction series called Starbird Ridge for Pockets Magazine each month.  Her story, "The Long March," about the 1838 Potawatomi Trail of Death (forced Indian removal to the west) appeared in Highlights for Children.   She has just finished a book about this called Two Moon Journey.
Her published books include The Fall of the Red Star (co-author, Helen Szablya) selected by C-span television to be featured on Children's Book TV.  In addition to
The Fall of the Red Star, Peggy is the author or contributor to four other published books for children.  (Safe At Home, Atheneum Publishing, First Day Blues, Parenting Press; Coming Home, Glenn Abbey Books; A Horse's Tale, Parenting Press.)Peggy has taught creative writing to adults for twenty-five years both in community college classes and at writing conferences ranging from SCBWI, Washington State, to the Highlights Foundation Writers Workshop in Chautauqua, New York.  She also teaches creative writing in the schools for kids of all ages from Kindergarten through High School.  She is a frequent presenter at Young Author’s Conferences.