Carol Miles Petersen

Born 1930 Wichita, KS (USA)

Beth Streeter Aldrich biographer and scholar, Carol Miles Petersen was a poet who won the Seaton Poetry Award, Nebraska Humanities Council Award, and a Louise Pound Fellowship. Miles taught in the English departments at both UNL and UNO as well as Fremont Midland College.

Places Lived

Omaha, NE
Lincoln, NE
Iowa
Kansas

Author Of

Biography
Nonfiction
Poetry

Keywords

Bess Streeter Aldrich; Poetry

Education

Bachelor of Arts Degree, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Master of Arts Degree, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
Ph.D., 1992, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Occupation

College Instructor
Professor
Poet

Places Worked

University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Fremont Midland Lutheran College, Fremont, NE

Honors

John H. Ames Reading Series, Featured Reader, 20 February 1997
Seaton Award for Poetry from the Kansas Quarterly, 1984
Nebraska Humanities Council Scholar Stipend Award
Louise Pound Fellowship

Associations

Bess Streeter Aldrich Biographer and Scholar
Susan Rosowski

Bibliography

Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Collected Short Works. 1907-1919. 1995.
Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real. 1995.
'Bess Streeter Aldrich' for American National Biography
'Bess Streeter Aldrich' for Twentieth Century Western Writers. 2nd ed.
1991.

View Petersen's February 1997 Ames Reading presentation here:

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