Laurel S. Peterson is a Professor of English at Norwalk Community College. Her poetry has been published in many small literary journals. She has two poetry chapbooks, That’s the Way the Music Sounds (Finishing Line Press, 2009) and Talking to the Mirror (The Last Automat Press, 2010), and a full-length collection, Do You Expect Your Art to Answer You? (Futurecycle Press, 2017). Futurecyle will also publish her second full-length collection, Daughter of Sky (2021). She co-edited a collection of essays on women’s justice titled (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women’s Experience (2009) and wrote a mystery novel, Shadow Notes (Barking Rain Press, 2016; rereleased by Woodhall, 2021). Her second mystery, The Fallen, will be released by Woodhall Press September 2021. She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine Inkwell, and served as the town of Norwalk, Connecticut’s, Poet Laureate from April 2016 – April 2019. To register email clahey@norwalkpl.org