...awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She has served as poet-in-residence at the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell and as the president of the board of directors of AWP. Shumaker teaches in the low-residency MFA...

The Alaska State Council on the Arts has chosen Fairbanks writer Peggy Shumaker as the new Alaska state writer laureate 2010-2012. She will serve a two-year term, which begun Oct. 1, 2010. She succeeds Homer writer Nancy Lord.