Peggy (Margaret Long) Kelley was born in the Canal Zone, Panama, near the middle of the twentieth century.
She was educated in Boston, Dallas, Vancouver, Austin and Pune, India, and has been a yogini and writer of prose and poetry since she was 19. Her books of poetry include Evagination, Slow Food, and Four Shields of Power. She recently completed a book about Iyengar Yoga and Ayurveda titled "Physical Poetry: Uniting Yoga and Ayurveda." Since 1976 she has practiced law and yoga and written in Austin, Texas, and on her travels (mostly to Central America, India and Canada). In one of her other lives, she was a Viking explorer.