TRACE PETERSON is a poet, editor, and literary scholar. Author of the poetry books Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2019) and The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia Books, 2025), she has also co-edited the groundbreaking anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books) and Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax). She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at UConn. Find her at tracepeterson.com.