Peggy Townsend

Peggy Townsend is an award-winning newspaper reporter who has covered stories from street kids to serial killers, and once chased an escaped murderer through a graveyard at midnight. She divides her time between a little house on the Central Coast of California and an even smaller cabin in Lake Tahoe and has two incredible writing groups which keep her at her desk instead of wandering off to the beach or sitting on her front porch staring at nothing. She has rafted rivers, come face-to-face with a grizzly in Alaska and has twice lived in a van for seven weeks on the road. She loves running, skiing, hiking, mountain biking and reading The New York Times on Sunday — along with a good cup of coffee.