Katie Peterson is the author of three collections of poetry, This One Tree, Permission, and The Accounts. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely. Recently, she contributed a poem to the Boston Review’s 2017 anthology, Poems for Political Disaster. She has received fellowships to support her work from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With her partner Young Suh, she has made and shown multimedia work in film, sculpture, and artist’s books; last year Mills College Museum of Art presented a show of their collaborative work entitled “Can We Live Here? Stories from a Difficult World.” Peterson is Associate Professor of English at the University of California Davis where she teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program. She often teaches on a short term basis at Deep Springs College in rural Inyo County, California, where she is a member of the Board of Trustees.