Alexandria Peary

Alexandria Peary (MFA, MFA, PhD) specializes in what makes writers function, using a mindfulness approach. She maintains a dual career in creative writing and composition-rhetoric. She serves as New Hampshire Poet Laureate and is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Peary is an award-winning author and a writing professor with 28 years classroom experience, focusing on helping people with problems in writing confidence. Peary is Director of the 2021 and 2022 North Country Young Writers' Festival and leads workshops on mindful writing to individuals impacted by the opioid crisis in her state.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2021*

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