The Fallen

Laurel S. Peterson is an English professor and served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Norwalk, Connecticut, for three years. She edited the poetry collection Oysterville: Poems. and serves on the editorial board of the literary journal, Inkwell. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, That's the Way the Music Sounds and Talking to the Mirror and the full length poetry collection Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? She also co-edited a collection of essays on women's justice titled (Re)Interpretations: The Shapes of Justice in Women's Experience. Shadow Notes is book one of The Clara Montague Mystery series and it will be followed by The Fallen in fall of 2020. She and her husband live in Connecticut.