Allan Peterson lives in Gulf Breeze, Florida He the author of a book, Anonymous Or, and two chapbooks, Stars On A Wire and Small Charities.  His poems have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, West Wind, Arts & Letters, Northwest Review, Belleview Literary Review, Agni, Drexel Online Journal, The King's English, Story South, Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Mid America Review, and elsewhere.  He was the 2002 winner of the Arts & Letters Poetry Prize and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Florida Arts Council and the NEA. He has been nominated five times for Pushcart prizes.

Allan recently won the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize for Poetry.  His winning manuscript, All the Lavish in Common, will be published in 2006.