Meet Peggy

Peggy Dobreer is founder and curator of Slow Lightning Lit, and editor of Slow Lightning: Impractical Poetry  and Slow Lightning: Astonished Poetry.

She is best known as Lena's mom, a Los Angeles poet, former dancer, four-time pushcart nominee, and author of three published collections: Forbidden Plums 2021, Glass Lyre Press, Drop and Dazzle 2018 and In the Lake of Your Bones 2012, with Moon Tide Pres.

Dobreer’s poetry highlights include having a billboard on Hollywood Boulevard for National Poetry Month, a winning poem on display at NASA headquarters after receiving a Poetry Matters Prize on a space related theme, and reading at The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, on the New Story Stage.  

Dobreer has received fellowships from Community of Writers, Charles University in Prague and the Institute for the Study of Los Angeles at Occidental College.

She has been interviewed on KPFK radio and has been featured in Cultural Weekly, Yoga Magazine, Aeolian Harp Review Vol. I & V, and most recently in Pratik’s Special Noir Edition and Kyoto Journal: Reflections on Asia.