Todd Robert Petersen (born in Moses Lake, Washington on August 17, 1969) is an American fiction writer and academic.
Petersen's fiction has appeared in many print and online magazines.
Petersen's work is highly regarded in the Mormon arts community, where Long Before Dark has been called what "should be the model for LDS literature.
Peterson was a founding editor of The Sugar Beet, an online Mormon satire magazine comparable to The Onion.
[5][6] His academic writing focuses on Western, Mormon, and pop-culture themes.