Christian Petersen's stories have been anthologized in the 1997 edition of Best Canadian Stories (ed. by Douglas Glover) and West By Northwest: B.C. Short Stories. He has published in Event, Prism international, Pottersfield Portfolio, The New Quarterly, Grain, The Fiddlehead and TickleAce. He has a BA in Writing from the University of Victoria and has worked with Jack Hodgins and Steven Heighton. He lives in Williams Lake, BC. Let the Day Perish is his first collection of short stories.