{"id":33069,"date":"2025-09-17T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/?page_id=33069"},"modified":"2025-10-02T17:07:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T00:07:47","slug":"evan-j-peterson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/evan-j-peterson","title":{"rendered":"Evan J. Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Affiliate Faculty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/09\/IAS_Faculty_Evan_Peterson.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33071\" style=\"width:288px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/09\/IAS_Faculty_Evan_Peterson.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2025\/09\/IAS_Faculty_Evan_Peterson-279x300.jpeg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-grey-background\">I&#8217;m an interdisciplinary game writer, novelist, and poet with a penchant for genre-bending, world-building, and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:evanjp@uw.edu\">evanjp@uw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I work with writers across and between genres and media, and I enjoy queering and exploding the bounds of many categories and forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &amp; Fantasy Fiction; Science Fiction; Humor &amp; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research and Scholarship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;ve focused on interactive text RPGs and dark urban fantasy-horror (Noir, Gothic, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>My first novel is <em>Better Living Through Alchemy<\/em> (Broken Eye Books), and other works include <em>METAFLESH: Poems In the Voices of the Monster<\/em> (ARUS), <em>Drag Star! <\/em>(Choice of Games), the world\u2019s first drag performer RPG, and <em>The Road to Innsmouth: Arkham Horror<\/em> (Asmodee).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Affiliate Faculty I&#8217;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. 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