Margaret Hermes, Author（英文）

Winter 2006

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Margaret Hermes, of the 6100 block of Kingsbury, boasts a string of recent fiction publications.

Her story “Transubstantiation” was selected for the anthology 20 Over 40, just published by the University Press of Mississippi, in which twenty seasoned authors explore the perils and satisfactions of midlife.

The collection was inspired by 20 Under 30 published in 1986 to wide acclaim, and a handful of those wunderkind, now unabashedly middle-aged, reappear in this new publication. Margaret, or Peggy as she’s known in the ‘hood,’ finds herself in good company among such eminent literary lights as Antonya Nelson, Frederick Barthelme, Robin Hemley, and Gish Jen. She’s also pleased by the appearance in October of her story “Two Marias” in New Millenium Writings 2006-07 and points out that this particular story was written to celebrate her classmates at Catholic schools from kindergarten through university. “The title character is a composite of the spirited girls I knew who have grown, appropriately, into uppity women.” Currently, she is a quarterfinalist in The St. Louis Short Story Competition, a national contest sponsored by a group of unnamed St. Louis authors offering the largest prize, $5,000, of any short story contest in the country.

The winner-take-all finalist will be announced in December. Peggy is spending a good deal of her time on other pursuits.

She is a steering committee member of Citizens to Protect Forest Park and is working to amend the St. Louis City Charter by an initiative petition whose purpose is to prevent development on city parkland without voter approval.

She is also hard at work on eARThworks, the gallery show and sale of fine art at RAC by 59 regional artists to benefit the Missouri Coalition for the Environment.