Trace Peterson

Trace Peterson is a poet, editor, 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. Her second book of poems, The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep, won the 2025 Alma Book Award and is forthcoming from Saturnalia Books in 2025. 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 has most recently been a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UCONN, Storrs.