*From Grist, 2016 Floating Bridge Chapbook Award winner.

Originally published in The Sierra Nevada Review.

Kate Peterson earned her MFA from Eastern Washington University, where she is now teaching composition as an adjunct. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from Sugar House Review, Packingtown Review, Aethlon, Glassworks, and The Sierra Nevada Review, among others. Kate is originally from New Jersey but has made Spokane her home.
This is her first published collection. She can be reached at www.katelaurenpeterson.tumblr.com.