Trace Peterson

Poet

Author's Bio

Trace Peterson is a poet and literary scholar. Her first book of poems, Since I Moved In, was reissued by Chax Press in a revised edition in 2019 with an Introduction by Joy Ladin. Peterson is the founding editor and publisher of EOAGH, a small press and literary journal which has won a National Jewish Book Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, including the first Lammy given in transgender poetry. She is co-editor of the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013) and of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax Press, 2016). She was previously the 2021-2022 N.E.H. Post-Doctoral 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.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
More Truly and More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems (Persea Books, 2020)
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Best American Experimental Writing 2016 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)
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Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology (Yale University Press, 2017)
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Devouring the Green (Jaded Ibis Press, 2015)
Books:
Since I Moved In (new & revised) (Chax Press, 2019)
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Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax Press, 2016)
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Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013)
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Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2007)
Chapbooks:
Transfeminism & Literature, Vol 2: with work from T.L. Cowan, Joy Ladin, Trace Peterson (Belladonna Books, 2012)
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Violet Speech (2nd Avenue Poetry, 2011)
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CUMULUS (Portable Press at yo-yo labs, 2003)
Journals:
Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day
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Anthology of New England Writers
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Aufgabe
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Cue: A Journal of Prose Poetry
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Five Fingers Review
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Marsh Hawk Review
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PEN America
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Spiral Orb
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The Texas Review
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Transgender Tapestry
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Vanitas
Prizes won: 

The 2007 Gil Ott Award (selected by Charles Alexander, Eli Goldblatt, Nathaniel Mackey, and Myung Mi Kim) The 2002 Robert Penn Warren Award (selected by John Ashbery) for the Anthology of New England Writers

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
LGBTQ
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, LGBTQ
Fluent in: 
English
Raised in: 
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Last update: Jan 15, 2023