Essays
- “The Skating Program” in Sport Literate, Late Fall 2021
- “The space feels hollow and dark as I wait for cues of light and sound, the
first beats of my program. Soon others will judge me. But for now, I’m
cocooned by my own obscurity.”
- “The space feels hollow and dark as I wait for cues of light and sound, the
- “Our Seasons” in Hypertext Review, Spring/Summer 2022
- “In springtime, when the first daffodil pushes its yellow head from brown soil, an airiness rises from my core and blossoms throughout my chest. As daylight hours expand, I rush outside and embrace an annual explosion of life.”
- “Irreversible” in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Spring 2023
- “Dogs bark as I ring the bell, but they quiet when the key turns. I open the door to my brother’s house, and they rush outside to pee. They’re alert and alive, so I think I’ve made it in time.”
- “Separation Anxiety” in Writer’s Foundry Review, Spring 2023
- “I want to gather memories from before Mom’s accident and Dad’s Alzheimer’s, pump blood into those recollections, breathe life into the past. Then, I would fling the animated images into this wood-paneled den, so I could undo Mom’s death, dismiss Dad’s forgetfulness, ignore any signs of their aging.”
Poetry
- “Gravity” in The Closed Eye Open, February 2022
- Mystical
windows break
open in the midst of
childhood, revealing loopholes
in steadfast rules, turning improbable
to possible. Objects go up, not
down, rebels escaping
from gravity’s
laws of
confinement….
- Mystical
Book Reviews
- Review of Sheila Hamilton’s All the Things We Never Knew: Chasing the Chaos of Mental Illness “ – Sierra Nevada Review Blog
- Review of Gayle Brandeis’ The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide – Bookin’ With Sunny
- Review of Rebecca Evans’ Tangled by Blood: a memoir in verse – The Writing Disorder
Academic
- Alice C. Fu, Lisa Peterson, Archana Kannan, Richard J. Shavelson & Amy Kurpius (2015) A Framework for Summative Evaluation in Informal Science Education, Visitor Studies, 18:1, 17-38, DOI: 10.1080/10645578.2015.1016363
- (2016) Room for Rigor: Designs and Methods in Informal Science Education Evaluation, Visitor Studies, 19:1, 12-38, DOI: 10.1080/10645578.2016.1144025
- Lisa Peterson (1997) Time Management for Library Professionals, Katherine Sharp Review, Issue 5, Summer.
- Lisa Peterson (1997) Effective Question Negotiation in the Reference Interview, Current Studies in Librarianship, Vol. 21, Nos. 1 and 2, Spring/Fall.
Current Projects
Lisa is currently seeking representation for her debut memoir, Rogue Waves: Love in the Wake of Bipolar Disorder.