Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College.  Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line Press, 2009) and Talking to the Mirror (The Last Automat Press, 2010), and two full-length collections, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? (2017) and Daughter of Sky (2021). She co-edited a collection of essays on women’s justice titled (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (2009) and has written two mystery novels Shadow Notes and The Fallen (Woodhall Press). She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine Inkwell, and served as the town of Norwalk, Connecticut’s, Poet Laureate from April 2016 – April 2019. Currently, she sits on the Norwalk Public Library Board.

You can find her on Substack at laurelspeterson.substack.com.