Christian Petersen has lived in Williams Lake, BC, for most of the past twenty years. He grew up in Quesnel, and the Cariboo-Chilcotin is the landscape of his fiction. His first collection of stories, Let The Day Perish, was published in 1999 by Beach Holme Publishing and his novel, Outside The Line, was published in 2009 by Dundurn Press. He holds a BA in Writing from the University of Victoria, and a Master's in Education from the University of New Brunswick.
