Peter Mason is a Bi+ poet, editor, and literary event and development specialist from Rochester, NY currently living in the Twin Cities area.

He is the Assistant Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota, Poetry Editor of Up North Lit, and Assistant Poetry Editor of Copihue Poetry.

Peter is a finalist for the 2022 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship, a recipient of the inaugural C.D. Wright/Academy of American Poets Prize, and an Artists 360 Grant from the Mid America Arts Alliance. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, AGNI, Ninth Letter, Booth,Vinyl Poetry & Prose, The Journal, and elsewhere.

He obtained his BA from SUNY Fredonia where he organized the first and second annual Fredonia Poetry Festival, the first Fredonia Poetry Slam, as well as several other literary and community events. He earned his MFA at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, where he served as the Development Director and Assistant Poetry Editor of The Arkansas International, and Development Director for the Open Mouth Literary Center.

Email: pcmasonpoetry@gmail.com