Helen Peterson (Baltic, Connecticut) is the managing editor of Chopper Poetry Journal, and has been previously published in Gloom Cupboard, Tonopah Review, Battered Suitcase, Juked, Debris Magazine, among others. Currently she has work in Girls With Insurance, and will have work in the upcoming issue of Southword Journal. Peterson's work was also featured in "The Work Book" (Poet Plant Press, 2007.)