Scarlett Peterson
OSGF
Interdisciplinary Residency, Five-Week, Session I
Scarlett Peterson is a poet, essayist, and lesbian. Her first collection, The Pink I Must Have Worn was published by Kelsay Books in 2023. She is currently working on her second manuscript of poems, Notes from the Field, and a lyric memoir, Groundwork. She is a PhD candidate at Georgia State University working on additional graduate certificates in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, as well as Gerontology. She is the 2022 winner of The Robert V. Morea III Poetry Prize, a recipient of a Martha’s Vineyard Creative Writing Fellowship, and attended an Oak Spring Garden Interdisciplinary Artist Residency in the Summer of 2023. Her work can be found in Moon City Review, The Lavender Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Peculiar, Pidgeonholes, Gargoyle Magazine, Ponder Review, Madcap Review, Counterclock Journal, The Shore, Poetry Online, Skink Beat Review, Eunoia Review, and more. You can find her on X [Twitter] and Instagram @scarlettpoet.