Peggy LampmanPeggy Lampman was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. After earning a bachelor's degree in communications, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan, she moved to New York City, where she worked as a copywriter and photographer for a publi relations firm. After moving back to Ann Arbor, her college town, she opened a specialty foods store, the Back Alley Gourmet. Years later, Peggy sold the store and started writing a weekly food column for the Ann Arbor News and MLive. She is married, has two children, and divides her time between Alabama and Michigan. Lampman writes the popular blog www.dinnerfeed.com; The Promise Kitchen is her first novel. Peggy will donate 10 percent of her net profits from the sale of this book to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Read More Read Less