Katie Peterson is the author of five collections of poetry, including Life in a Field (2021) and A Piece of Good News (2019). This year, her work has appeared in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Changes Review, Interim, Literary Imagination, the New York Review of Books, Sporklet, and Zocalo Public Square. The Datz Museum in Gawnju, South Korea, presented an exhibition of her collaborations with the photographer Young Suh this fall entitled “On The Boundary.” She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis. She loves the desert.