Lee Peterson is the author of two full-length poetry collections, In the Hall of North American Mammals (Cider Press Review) and Rooms and Fields: Dramatic Monologues from the War in Bosnia (Kent State University Press) and 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 research and writing focus 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. She lives in Central Pennsylvania.