Peggy Hill lives in western Colorado. She grew up in the American Midwest, in a small town surrounded by cornfields that gradually merged with the sprawl of the Chicago suburbs.

She led a long non-profit career advocating for children exposed to violence, families living in poverty, and public mental health. After completing all the education she could stand, she worked for organizations based in Indiana, New Hampshire, and Colorado, doing advocacy and program development in many of the poorest neighborhoods and rural areas of America. The fortitude and resilience of so many people she met along the way fueled her desire to better understand what contributes to social and personal well-being, even in the midst of oppression and want.

She is now semi-retired and taking time to pursue her love for creative writing and her penchant for disappearing on foot into the woods and mountains that surround her home. Her stories are inspired by people and places where she has lived, worked, and traveled, and by the magnificent complexity of the natural world.

Her first book, Bedtime Stories for Adults, Volume 1, is a collection of tales meant to provide a bit of therapeutic diversion for all those still hard at work in the difficult world where every plot line is blindingly complex and there aren’t enough happy endings.