Joseph G. Peterson

Joseph G. Peterson (born 1965) is a contemporary American author and poet from Chicago, Illinois. Peterson graduated from the University of Chicago.

From 1992-1998, he published the zine Storyhead, referred to by Factsheet Five as "A Zine of stunning illustration and provocative writing that ranks among the very best." and known for publishing Stu Mead, David Greenberger and Wisława Szymborska.

Long Works
Beautiful Piece (Switchgrass Books, an imprint of Northern Illinois University Press, 2009)

Wanted: Elevator Man (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012) (cited as an example of "bust culture" in The Great Recession in Fiction, Film, and Television: Twenty-First-Century Bust Culture (Lexington Books (2013))

Inside The Whale: A Novel in Verse (Wicker Park Press Ltd, 2011), a long poem.

Gideon's Confession (forthcoming)

Short Works
Early work was published in Stu Mead's zine Art Police

"The Eternally Lit" Akashic Books

"When Hyde Park Swings Upon A Hinge" Anthology of Chicago

"The Panther" Disembodied Text

"Artist" Banango Street