Trace Peterson is a poet and literary scholar. Author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2007/2019), she is also founding editor and publisher of EOAGH, which has won a National Jewish Book Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, including the first given in transgender poetry. She is coeditor of the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013/2015) and coeditor of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax Press, 2016). Her second full-length book of poems is forthcoming. Her work has appeared in A Companion to American Poetry (Wiley Blackwell, 2022), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies (SAGE Publishing, 2021), More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems (Persea Books, 2020), Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology (Dia Art Foundation/Yale University Press, 2017), From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice (ON Contemporary Practice, 2017), The Best American Experimental Writing 2016 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Peterson was the 2021-2022 N.E.H. Fellow in Poetics at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University, and she is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UCONN, Storrs.
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