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Peg Kerr - Author

Peg Kerr has written two novels; Emerald House Rising and The Wild Swans (an original novel based on the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen).

The Wild Swans has been nominated for the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Book Award for it's "writing quality and the originality Kerr employed in using a fairy tale to discuss a modern issue of concern (AIDS)."

The SF Web Site, the Internet host for Asimov's Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, called The Wild Swans "an unexpected masterpiece" and ranked it as the fourth best novel of 1999.  See for yourself at http://www.sfsite.com/columns/best00.htm.

Peg Kerr is a Chicago native and has lived in Minnesota since moving here to attend St. Olaf College. Peg's short fiction has appeared in Amazing Stories, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Weird Tales, and other magazines and anthologies. Peg has an M.A. in English Literature, is an alum of the Clarion Writers Workshop, and presently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two daughters.

(Partial) Bibliography:

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Novels

Emerald House Rising, Warner Aspect, June 1997.
The Wild Swans, Warner Aspect, April 1999.

Short Fiction

"Analog Anniversary." Tales of the Unanticipated. Winter/Spring/Summer 1991, Number 8.
"Athena Keramitis." Fantasy & Science Fiction. February 1991. Vol 80, No. 2.
"Curses." Amazing Stories. July 1990. Vol 65, No. 2.
"Debt in Kind." Weird Tales. Fall 1990. Vol. 52, No. 1.
"Free Day." Tales of the Unanticipated. Spring 1987, Number 2.
"Lethe." Full Spectrum 3. Lou Aronica, Amy Stout, and Betsy Mitchell, eds. New York: Doubleday, 1991.
"Miss Pemberly." Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine. Issue Three, Spring 1989.
"Treefall." Tales of the Unanticipated. Winter/Spring 1988, Number 3.
"Us Do Part." Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine. Issue Four, Summer 1989.
"Watching." Tales of the Unanticipated. Spring/Summer 1989, Number 5.

Peg Kerr Panel Schedule

Location Track Day Time Panel Title
Capitol Ballroom Literature Fri 6:00pm - 7:00pm Ongoing Power of Fairy Tales
Wabasha 3 Hot Dish Fri 9:00pm - 10:00pm Gender Roles in SF/F
Autograph Table Literature Sat 10:30am - 11:30am Book signing
Capitol Ballroom Literature Sat 1:30pm - 2:30pm Reading
Krushenko's Literature Sat 7:30pm - 8:30pm SF Writer's Groups
Capitol Ballroom Literature Sat 9:00pm - 10:00pm Evolving Portrayals of LGBT Lives in SF/F
Capitol Ballroom Literature Sun Noon - 1:00pm Is The Wild Swans an LGBT Book?

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.  An updated schedule will be published at the convention.

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