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Trace Peterson

Trace Peterson is a trans woman poet critic. Author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) and forthcoming books of poetry, she also edits/publishes EOAGH Books which won a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry in 2016. She is Co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) and of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax Press). Her recent work appears in The Best American Experimental Writing 2016 (Wesleyan University Press), New Narrative As Contemporary Practice (ON Contemporary Practice), TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and at The Academy of American Poets website (poets.org). She currently teaches at Yale University and Hunter College.

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