Steven Peterson
Steven Peterson is a poet and playwright living in Chicago, with summers and early autumns spent in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. He is the author of the debut collection, Walking Trees and Other Poems (Finishing Line Press, 2025). His recent poems can be found online in such journals as Alabama Literary Review, The Christian Century, Dappled Things, First Things, New Verse Review, and forthcoming in The New Criterion. From 2014 to 2022 he was a Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Steve’s plays have been produced at theaters around the USA. Premiere productions of his full-length plays include Paris Time at Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, New York), The Actuary at Peninsula Players (Fish Creek, WI), Affluence at Theatre 40 (Los Angeles), and The Invasion of Skokie at Chicago Dramatists (with revivals by other theaters). His new plays in development have been presented at Cleveland Play House, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Capital Rep, Centre Stage (Greenville SC), Theatre Ariel (Philadelphia), and elsewhere. He is the winner of the 2013 Julie Harris Playwrights Award.