Luanna Peterson is a writer, editor, and community organizer committed to storytelling as a tool for liberation, healing, and resistance. Her work focuses on cultural memory, ecological justice, and community resilience, amplifying voices too often silenced by systemic erasure.

She holds a dual Bachelor's degree in Global Studies and Communications and a Master’s in Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community, with an emphasis on Ecological Agriculture. Her career spans multiple fields both domestically and internationally, including social justice-focused art and film projects, community intervention programs, and curriculum design.

Currently, she works at Mothering Justice, advocating for mothers of color through policy change. As the editor of Weaving Our Stories – Return to Belonging, Luanna brings together voices of resistance, healing, and collective memory through poetry and essays. She also co-founded Weaving Our Stories, a Hawai'i-rooted abolitionist program that uses storytelling to reclaim power and build pathways to justice.

Her writing spans multiple genres, from poetry and nonfiction to speculative fiction. She recently self-published Noel Beats The Blues with Good News, a chapter book about resilience, community, and hope, following a young girl’s journey through landscapes of struggle to discover the power of tenacity, connection, and small acts of courage.

She is currently working on Quitting Earth: Silent Ascension, the first novel in a speculative fantasy series that blends ancestral magic, cosmic stakes, and ecological reckoning. Set in a post-apocalyptic world on the brink of collapse, it explores liberation, cultural memory, and intergenerational healing. Inspired by Black feminist traditions of Deep Sighting, the story follows Lionel Berry, an 11-year-old magi-in-training, who must navigate a battle for survival against the Acataeon, cybernetic overlords who hoard resources, suppress culture, and weaponize memory itself. But Lionel’s journey is only one thread in a larger struggle for existence—a battle waged across generations and dimensions, where belonging and survival become acts of defiance and hope.

Through her work, Luanna seeks to engage communities in deeper learning, build collective memory through storytelling, and empower individuals to reclaim and reshape the narratives that define them.