previous collections

"Life in a Field is hybrid, mongrel - part allegory, part parable, part fable, part fairytale, part futurist pastoral set in the past or an alternate reality. In this short collection, Peterson has created her own original, heterodox form."
—Rachel Zucker

“To call Katie Peterson’s Life in a Field unsettling is an understatement. The collection eludes narrative and logic, insisting on hybridity. Readers must remind themselves to embrace confusion and linger in the discomfort. The point is to get lost in the field.”
– Rachel Slotnick, Rain Taxi

“Peterson manages something breathtaking – she writes as a contemporary devotional poet.”
– Peter Campion, Public Books

"These poems burst into consciousness..."
– Publishers Weekly

“An essential book for our brutal age.”
– Rosanna Warren

“Peterson’s poems are metaphysical in a West Coast way—that is, half loopy and half apt to faint at the sight of a bristlecone pine.”
– William Logan, The New Criterion

“It’s as if a fable split open and a diary page fell out. Poetry is always about what’s being said and not said, but rarely are the two so expertly intertwined.”
– David Orr, The New York Times