Peg Edera is a poet who walks the world the way one walks a familiar trail—slowly, with her hands open, listening for whatever small truth rises from the underbrush. A Quaker by practice and a contemplative by nature, her work leans toward the wild edges of experience: love that deepens through suffering, grief that teaches its own strange tenderness.

Her poems are invitations—to pause, to look again, and savor, whether we like it or not. In Love Is Deeper Than Distance and Reclaiming the Nectar and the Hum, she turns toward the hardest parts of living with a gaze that is steady and generous. She writes of illness, caregiving, motherhood, and the long thresholds of loss with a clarity that does not startle the heart but quietly opens it.

Peg lives in Portland, Oregon, where she continues to practice the art of attention: listening to what the world asks of her, gathering its offerings, and shaping them into poems that return us to our own stillness, our own belonging..