Jennifer Polson Peterson is a writer living in South Mississippi. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Radar, Beloit Poetry Journal, Southern Humanities Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been featured on Poetry Daily, nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize, and nominated for inclusion in the Best of the Net Anthology. Her debut manuscript was named a semifinalist for the Helena Whitehill Book Award with Tupelo Press and the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize with Persea Books.She is an assistant teaching professor at the University of Southern Mississippi and the author of a chapbook, Must Resemble Leisure, published by Seven Kitchens Press. She also currently serves as the inaugural poet laureate of the city of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.