Peggy Suzuki

Peggy Suzuki received her PhD in English from St. John’s University with a concentration in composition and rhetoric. Her writing includes “A Wellness Curriculum from Jimmy Santiago Baca’s A Place to Stand” in Survive and Thrive, “Training Manual for Exercise Instruction,” several articles for Thrive Global, and conference presentations at MLA, NeMLA, Conference on College Composition and Communication, SUNY Council on Writing, Mellon Faculty Diversity Project, Liberal Arts Collective, Community College Humanities Association, and the Southern Regional Composition Conference.

Peggy has also collaborated and written several original plays which have been performed at The Public Theater, La Mama, etc. and The Cherry Lane Theatre and she has performed as an actor extensively in New York and internationally. Favorite roles include Viola in Twelfth Night, the title role in Miss Margarida’s Way, and the Wife in The Good Woman of Setzuan. Currently, Peggy is working on a biography of Margaret Naumburg, the mother of art therapy.