Steven Peterson is a poet and playwright living in Chicago. His first collection, Walking Trees and Other Poems (2025), has been published by Finishing Line Press. His poems appear in Alabama Literary Review, America, The Christian Century, Dappled Things, First Things, Light, Modern Age, The North American Anglican, Poems for Ephesians, and elsewhere. A selection of his poems is also included in the anthology Taking Root in the Heart (Paraclete Press, 2023).