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Peggy Trojan’s father, Wayne Lundeen, lived almost one hundred years. Oldest of eight, born on a Minnesota homestead in 1908, his zest for life set an example for everyone who knew him. He wrote and published his autobiography when he was ninety-four.
Peggy Trojan is an award-winning author of four chapbooks and two full length collections.
Pa was awarded second place in the 2022 chapbook contest sponsored by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Contest judge Margaret Hasse wrote these comments about the book: "Pa by Peggy Trojan honors a father through 27 poems that remember him as a practical, generous, steady man. The "pa," who died at 98 years old, is often a living ghost in the poems, not spooky but a presence who "never gets /the hang of being dead." One poem titled "giving it up" is a remarkable list of activities that the engaged and energetic father with his XL hands could no longer do in his old age. These poems do not fall prey to the sentimentality that can color a collection of poems about a parent. Instead, each has a direct understated appeal. Many of the poems have been previously published, a testament to the quality of the work and the writer's commitment."
