Peg Kerr

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Peg Kerr
Born	28 April Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Author
Nationality	American
Period	1987–present
Genre	fantasy
Children	2

Peg Kerr (born 28 April of undisclosed year) is an American fantasy author.

Biography

She was born in a suburb of Chicago and moved to Minnesota to attend St. Olaf College. She received an M.A. in English Literature in 1990^[where?], specializing in speculative fiction. She lives with her two daughters in Minneapolis; she and her daughters are students of the martial arts. Her husband, Robert F. Ihinger, died in 2018.^[1]

Kerr has been publishing short fiction since 1987 and attended the

and several anthologies.

Kerr's first novel Emerald House Rising was published in 1997 by

, as well as the unusual sociology she constructed around them.

Her second novel The Wild Swans, based in part on Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale The Wild Swans, was published in 1999. It was praised by many notable figures in the genre, including Lois McMaster Bujold and Jane Yolen, and was nominated for a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature as well. Charles de Lint placed it "among the very best contemporary retellings of fairy tales, those that retain the old charm and magic of the original, but use the classic material to illuminate elements of our life in the real world."^[2]

References

External links

• A Peg Kerr page – fan-maintained, with Kerr's support
• http://pegkerr.livejournal.com - Kerr's LiveJournal
• Enthusiastic review of Wild Swans at SF Site
• Peg Kerr at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database