Professor Katie Peterson

Katie Peterson is the author of six books of poetry, including Fog and Smoke, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in January 2024. Her poetry has appeared in the Atlantic, the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, Poetry London, and the Yale Review. Her edition of the New Selected Poems of Robert Lowell was published by FSG in 2017.

Peterson’s work has been recognised with awards and fellowships, including the Rilke Prize from the University of North Texas, a Literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Her collaborations with her husband, the photographer Young Suh, have been shown in museums and galleries in the United States and South Korea; their collaborative book, Life in a Field, was published by Omnidawn Books in 2021. Peterson’s selected poems in French with an introduction by Louise Gluck is forthcoming in October 2024 from Cheyne Editeur. Next year, she will be a resident at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. When she is not a Visiting Fellow at Oxford, she is Professor of English at the University of California at Davis.

• Poetry & poetic form
• Emily Dickinson
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• British and American literature
• Writing and the American West
• Korean literature & culture
• Country & bluegrass music