About Me

Tim Peterson is a poet, critic and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. The author of Since I Moved In, recipient of the first Gil Ott Award from Chax Press, Peterson also edits EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts and curates the TENDENCIES talks series at CUNY Graduate Center. A new chapbook, VIOLET SPEECH, is forthcoming from 2nd Avenue Poetry in Fall 2009. Other chapbooks include CUMULUS (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs) and Trinkets Mashed into a Blender (Faux Press/e).

Peterson's poetry and criticism have appeared in 2nd Avenue Poetry, Antennae, artsMEDIA, Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Critiphoria, CUE, EBR, EOAGH: A Journal of the Arts, Fascicle, Five Fingers Review, Harvard Review, OCHO, ON, Marsh Hawk Review, The Poker, RAIN TAXI, Sonora Review, and Transgender Tapestry.

Peterson is guest-editor of a special issue of MIT Press' journal Leonardo Electronic Almanac on "New Media Poetry and Poetics."

Other recent critical writing appears in the book Burning Interiors: David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics, ed. Fink and Lease (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press).