Beth Peterson is an assistant professor of writing at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her essays and poetry have appeared or are forthcoming in Fourth Genre, River Teeth, Post Road, the Mid-American Review, the Pinch, Newfound, Passages North, Flyway, Sky Island Journal, Alchemy, the Great Lakes Review, and the Ocean State Review. She's been a finalist for the Non/Fiction Collection Book Prize, Autumn House Press Nonfiction Book Contest, Obsidian Prize, and Cleveland State Poetry Center essay collection competition. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Wyoming and a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Missouri.