Linnea Peterson

My essay “No Leads,” about being disabled/chronically ill and having test results come back negative, is in the latest issue of FLARE Magazine, a literally magazine focusing on experiences of disability and chronic illness. Read the essay or check out this whole issue, which is focused on health scares!

My poem “Doctor Roulette,” which is about medical gaslighting and the challenges that chronically ill people face while trying to access appropriate diagnoses and treatment, appears in Issue 3 of FLARE Magazine, a literary magazine focused on the experiences of disabled, chronically ill, and mentally ill people. Two other poems of mine, titled “Worthy” and “Re-learning,” were included in the inaugural issue several months ago.

I am now offering freelance copy editing and sensitivity reading services! If you’re a writer looking for someone to help improve clarity, grammatical correctness, and flow in your writing, contact me about copy editing. If you’re writing an autistic character and want an autistic person’s insights on that representation, get in touch about sensitivity reading. Rates and testimonials are available in the editing section of this site.

If you missed the preorder window for A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the book is now available from Duck Prints Press and other booksellers, in both paperback and eBook forms!

This anthology contains my first published piece of fiction, a short story called “Lyd, Not Lydia.” The story is a modern adaptation of Lydia Bennet’s “scandal,” featuring Lyd Bennet, a nonbinary high school student who visits their older sister, Lizzy, at college and gets involved with frat boy George Wickham . . . who turns out to be transphobic.

I’ve read the whole anthology by now, and it’s fantastic! I’m so happy to be published alongside such talented writers telling such delightful stories–so get yourself a copy!

I’ve got two poems out today in a literary journal called FLARE Magazine, which focuses on the experiences of folks who are disabled, chronically ill, and/or mentally ill. Both of my poems focus on autism; the first is a free-verse poem called “Worthy,” and the second is a sonnet called “Re-learning.” Read them here.

The Kickstarter for the anthology I’m in is now live! You can back the project at the $20 level to get the e-book version, at the $40 level to get the paperback version, at the $60 level to get the paperback plus some merch, and at the $115 level to get the paperback plus a LOT of merch. I’m so excited about this anthology–both for people to read my story and for me to get to read all the other stories and see all the artwork! Go check out the Kickstarter for more information and to order your copy.

Five Minutes is an online literary magazine that publishes 100-word micro-memoirs about five minutes of the writer’s life. I had a piece called “One Phone Call” in Five Minutes last winter, and yesterday I had my second piece in the magazine. This one is called “Say Goodbye,” and it’s about my dad telling me about my mom’s cancer diagnosis. Read it here.