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Margaret
F. Hodges, fiction writer, Portsmouth
Margaret
(Peggy) Hodges, a free-lance writer, has made a living wage
throughout her writing career by taking what some people might
call "odd detours," while others might call her
path, "a creative life choice." She has been a college
teacher, theater box office manager, and a transcriber of
medical records (x-ray, ultrasound, CT and MRI reports for
a large county hospital and teaching facility--a job that
put her through graduate school).
Since
graduating with an MA in Anthropology (with honors), graduate
work in English and Playwriting, and a BA in Theater and English
achieved in California, Illinois, and Wisconsin respectively,
this talented fiction writer has been been a Director of Education
at the San Francisco State University's Anthropology Department,
at the Litchfield Historical Society in Connecticut, and a
college teacher for the University of Maryland's Overseas
Division, Navy Campus in Sigonella, Sicily where she taught
undergraduate English and Anthropology courses to U.S. Navy
servicemen and women. Living on the side of Mt. Etna for three
years, she absorbed great story and book ideas which inform
her current writing.
When
she moved to New Hampshire, she became the Education Coordinator
for the Manchester Historic Association from 1994 to 1998.
Since then, she has returned to the work that put her through
graduate school--this time transcribing medical reports in
neurosurgery, physical therapy, family practice, urology,
psychiatry, pediatrics departments for a professional data
services company in Portsmouth. In a telephone interview,
she said, "You name it, I've probably done it. Boy can
I spell. And I type really fast."
During
her employment at museums, she has published numerous education
workbooks and activity books. Her short fiction, A Tourist
Story, was published in Happy in 1996. Other published short
fiction includes: The Sforza Horse, Daddy Mows the Lawn, Reeny's
Mom, The Waite, and The Good Husband {awarded "First
Prize" in Whiskey Island Magazine and "Honorable
Mention" in the Boston Review Short Story Contest).
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January 4, 2005
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