Anda Peterson - Florida Author Spotlight
Get to Know Anda
Anda Peterson worked as a teacher and counselor with low-income, at-risk youth in the Boston area for two decades. She earned her MFA in Creative writing from Emerson College in Boston. Currently, she is an adjunct instructor of writing at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg.
Her poetry has appeared in literary magazines like The Human Rights Festival of Art (NYC), Odet Literary Magazine, Derida, Spirit, Snapdragon, Plum Tavern Journal, Sky Island Journal, Blue Lake Review, Little Apple, Sojourner, The Real Paper, and in anthologies Sunbury 9, Salt Creek Journal, and Something to Say.
Her feature stories have appeared in The Boston Tab and Cape Cod Travel Guide. Her spiritual memoir, Walks with Yogi: the Enlightenment Experiment was published by Shanti Arts Publications, 2016 and is available on Amazon.
Read Her Work
You can find Anda’s book, Walks With Yogi: The Enlightenment Experiment, on Amazon. You can also visit her website to learn more about her and appreciate her art.
“Inspiring, moving, and often absolutely hilarious! Walks with Yogi is an essential read for anyone interested in living mindfully. The premise of the book hooked me--the author, Anda Peterson, uses her life as an experiment in non-attachment, amidst a culture that is conversely obsessed with attachment.” - Jeanette Suzelleon, Amazon, July 31, 2016
Learn About Her Florida Connections
I moved to Florida from the Boston area 18 years ago. I came to start over after a disastrous relationship and loss of work. Also, I wanted to live somewhere that allowed me to be outdoors more of the year than in Massachusetts. I found here I could indulge my love of kayaking and meditating in nature. The literary community was starting to flourish and I was happy to be part of it; we live in a city that is a good enough size for diversity but not so large that one gets lost.