Natasha Peterson is an award-winning nonfiction author, journalist and marketing writer. Her new project and first fiction, Delta Babies, is about teenagers, based on true tales of growing up down in New Orleans.
Peterson's first book, Sacred Sites: North America's Most Powerful, Mystical Landmarks (1989, Contemporary Books, Verlag Goldman in Germany), sold through five printings. It was the first trade book heralding spiritual travel in the U.S. and was featured on CNN twice.
Peterson also ghosts. Among other projects, she researched and ghosted the revised How to Fight Arthritis and Win (2002 Agora Health Books). As senior writer for Ogilvy PR in Washington DC (1995-2000), her articles about travel and health appeared in the NY Times Magazine travel edition, USA Today, The Washington Post and were syndicated nationally. She named and developed national campaigns including Experience Your America for the National Park Service, CDC's Choose Your Cover for sun safety, and Call to Protect to reduce domestic violence. Her individual concepts and teamwork won seven prestigious national PR awards including the video PSA on AIDS, "A Company Program", and Beauty When You've Been a Beast for the American Society of Florists. In Los Angeles, prior to moving to the East Coast, Peterson was a food writer for organic food and supplement companies, and also wrote for Albertson's Foods.
For a decade, Peterson worked in film and television in Los Angeles doing story development for studios including Fox Television, Orion, ABC and Warner Cable. "Between industry gigs, I loved working at a metaphysical bookstore indulging my penchant for the paranormal. In college at U-Conn, I won the coveted Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize, after which I stopped writing poetry."
"I've had a zillion experiences that have enriched and confounded me, but my most informed years were those in the Big Easy. Working on Delta Babies is a true joy."
Member of American Independent Writers (AIW), based in Washington, D.C. and the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society of New Orleans.
Peterson lives with her family in Virginia.
