Education
University of Oregon.
University of Oregon.
He is a fiction writer and an academic currently based at Southern Utah University. He is one of eleven writers selected by the Utah Arts Council to represent the arts in Utah education. Petersen received his bachelors at University of Oregon, his masters at Northern Arizona University and his doctorate at Oklahoma State University.
His masters and doctorate focused on creative writing.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 2001 and moved to SUU the same year.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.