Hello, My name is Victoria Petersen
Victoria Petersen is a journalist living in Alaska. She is currently a reporter at the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai, with beats in education and Soldotna. She was previously the copy editor and a columnist at the University of Alaska Anchorage student newspaper, The Northern Light and an intern for Alaska Public Media and Alaska Dispatch News (now Anchorage Daily News).
Victoria is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Spenardian, an award-winning hyperlocal news source for Anchorage’s Spenard neighborhood. She was an editorial intern at Alaska Dispatch News for the 2016-2017 school year.
Born and raised in Alaska, Victoria calls Anchorage home. Specifically Spenard: where her great-grandparents homesteaded, her parents met and where she now tells the stories of the Anchorage neighborhood and beyond.
In collaboration with her other foodie friend, Abigail Slater, Victoria is working on a long-term Alaskan cookbook called Bloom and Bounty. The publication features stories, memoirs and recipes from around the state.
Her work has been featured in The Northern Light, Show Me Alaska, Anchorage Press, The Frontiersman, Knik.co, Juliaomalley.media, Last Frontier Magazine, Great British Chefs, First We Feast, Alaska Dispatch News, Edible Alaska Magazine, Cruise Critic, Crude Magazine, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Public Media, Mt. View Post, Eaten Magazine, Education Week and the Peninsula Clarion.
In 2018, Petersen received three Alaska Press Club awards.
- First place in the Vern McCorkle Award for Best Business Reporting – for a story she wrote about Alaska-made lingerie.
- Third place in the Suzan Nightingale Award for Best Columnist – for her cooking column at UAA’s student newspaper.
- First place in the Best Blog category – for her blog The Spenardian.
In 2017, Petersen was the recipient of an Alaska Press Club award for third place in the general news category for her work in 2016 on an indoor hydroponic farm in Spenard.
Petersen likes wildflowers, history, trains, poutine and ghost towns. She has been called the Supreme Empress of Spenard on multiple occasions and she never loses a game of Jenga.
