Katie Peterson is the author of This One Tree (2006), winner of the New Issues Poetry Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Boston Review, the Chicago Tribune, Gulf Coast, and other publications. She holds a doctorate in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard University, and she has held teaching positions at Deep Springs College and Bennington College. The recipient of fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and Yaddo, Peterson is currently Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University. She was born in California and lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.