Lee Peterson is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia selected by Jean Valentine for the Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press) and In the Hall of North American Mammals (Cider Press Review), as well as a chapbook, The Needles Road (Seven Kitchens Press). Her work has appeared in Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and such journals as Arts & Letters, Bellingham Review, Collateral, Rust & Moth, Southern Humanities Review, and THRUSH. Her poem “Quartet for the End of Time” won the 2023 Poetry International Prize judged by Black Lawrence Press author Alexandra Lytton Regalado. Peterson’s research, writing, and community interests center on issues of human rights, displacement and migration, and motherhood. She holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and is an Associate Teaching Professor of English at Penn State University.