Evan J. Peterson

Affiliate Faculty

I’m an interdisciplinary game writer, novelist, and poet with a penchant for genre-bending, world-building, and performance.

Email: evanjp@uw.edu

Teaching

I work with writers across and between genres and media, and I enjoy queering and exploding the bounds of many categories and forms.

My teaching background includes a broad survey of speculative fiction as well as poetry, both traditional and experimental. I encourage students to trouble the lines of form, medium, genre, etc. Frequent writing class topics include Supernatural & Fantasy Fiction; Science Fiction; Humor & Satire; Movements and Forms of Poetry; and Poetry of Resistance. My literature topics include LGBTQ Literature; Graphic Novels; and my favorite, Monsters of Literature and Popular Culture.

Research and Scholarship

My own creative work includes interactive fiction and video game narrative; science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction; nonfiction, memoir, and journalism; page poetry; and performance poetry. My writing has appeared in Weird Tales, PseudoPod, Queers Destroy Horror, and Nightmare Magazine. POSTHUMAN, my next RPG, is coming in late 2025 from Choice of Games. I’ve also served as Creative Editor and Editor-In-Chief of a poetry micropublisher and producer-emcee of several feminist horror and science fiction film series. Lately, I’ve focused on interactive text RPGs and dark urban fantasy-horror (Noir, Gothic, etc.).

Selected Publications

My first novel is Better Living Through Alchemy (Broken Eye Books), and other works include METAFLESH: Poems In the Voices of the Monster (ARUS), Drag Star! (Choice of Games), the world’s first drag performer RPG, and The Road to Innsmouth: Arkham Horror (Asmodee).