bio

Andrew K. Peterson is a Boston-based poet and editor. He is the author of seven full-length poetry books and several chapbooks, most recently Young Stars of the Bubble (published by Carbonation Press, 2025), and Road of Birds (Audience Askew, 2025). His 2017 chapbook The Big Game Is Every Night was mailed to the White House as part of Moria Books’ Locofo Chaps protests against the Trump administration. His previous chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press Equinox Chapbook Contest Runner Up, 2011) was featured in an exhibition on poets’ maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. His writing is anthologized in Emergency Index 2012 (Ugly Duckling Presse), RISD Museum’s The Earth Archive, 4000 WORDS 4000 DEAD, a collaborative performance project (curated by Jennifer Karmin, released by Sona Press), The Ash Anthology (Fact-Simile Press), and numerous print/online journals. In 2017, he was a co-organizer of the Boston Poetry Marathon. He was a cofounding editor of the literary journal summer stock. He earned an MFA (Creative Writing) from Naropa University’s Kerouac School, and a BA from The George Washington University (Electronic Media + Film Studies).