Author: Julie Boutwell-Peterson

Julie Boutwell-Peterson teaches creative writing in the Honors College at the University of Kentucky. She holds a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of South Dakota, where her research focused on immigrant and refugee narratives as well as creative nonfiction essays and children’s literature. Prior to entering academia full-time, she worked as a newspaper journalist in North Carolina and Alabama and also taught English as a Second Language in Slovakia and Kazakhstan. Her creative writing has appeared in a number of publications including The American Scholar, Litro, and Ocean State Review.