Paula W. Peterson
Encyclopedia
Life
She graduated from Brandeis UniversityBrandeis University
Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...
and from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
with an M.A. in English Literature.
Her short fiction has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Greensboro Review, Alligator Juniper, Iowa Review, Nimrod.
Peterson currently lives and writes in San Francisco, where she is involved in HIV/AIDS advocacy work.
Awards
- 2000 Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for Nonfiction
- 2006 Dana AwardDana AwardThe Dana Award is a literary award presented in short fiction, poetry and the novel. It was founded in 1996 by literature professor and poet Mary Elizabeth Parker with the financial backing of Michael Dana. The competition is currently based in Greensboro, North Carolina...
- Bakeless Prize collection, for "Prognosis Guarded"
- Pushcart Prize.