Jesse Peterson is a PhD fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden and is part of a Marie Curie Innovative Training Network in Environmental Humanities. His research has developed around the relationships between water, waste, and wasteland, particularly framed within a discard studies approach and methodology (follow-the-thing). Jesse has an MFA in poetry and translation and a MSc in environmental humanities, and has worked in land conservation and management in the United States and Ecuador. He has taught writing and founded and edits an environmental humanities literary arts journal called saltfront.