Trace Peterson

Trace Peterson is a poet and literary scholar. Her books are The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia Books, 2025) and Since I Moved In (Chax Press 2019). She has also co-edited the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013) and Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax 2016). Her poetry and criticism have appeared in Boundary 2, Super Gay Poems (Harvard UP), More Truly and More Strange (Persea), The Best American Experimental Writing (Wesleyan UP), The Academy of American Poets, Boston Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Colorado Review. She edits the journal and small press EOAGH which has won 2 Lambda Literary Awards and a National Jewish Book Award. She currently teaches at UCONN.