A native of Milwaukee, Margaret (Peggy) Rozga is a civil rights activist, poet, and Professor Emerita of English at UW-Waukesha. She has published four books of poetry, including Pestiferous Questions: A Life in Poems (2017), written with the help of a creative writing fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. She edited the poetry chapbook anthology Where I Want to Live: Poems for Fair & Affordable Housing, a project for the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee’s fair housing marches. She serves as current Wisconsin Poet Laureate.