In her new collection A Piece of Good News (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2019), Katie Peterson, English professor and head of the creative writing program, explores interior and exterior landscapes, exposure and shelter. The poems are powerful meditations of mourning, love, doubt, political citizenship and happiness.

Katie Peterson is the author of six collections of poetry, including the forthcoming Fog and Smoke (2024). The Accounts (2013) was the winner of the 2014 Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas. A Piece of Good News (2019) was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award. Life in a Field (2021) won the Omnidawn Open Book Prize. Her edition of the Brief Selected Poems of Robert Lowell was published in 2017. 

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