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Erik Petersen
Erik Petersen, Editor

Erik Petersen was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he began his journalism career at The Kansas City Star. He then spent 11 years in Britain at the Nottingham Post before returning to his hometown in 2014. He tries never to miss an ArtWalk, and you might also find him watching Panthers hockey or cricket in Lauderhill. His wife, Joanna, teaches high school English and his daughter, Anya, attends elementary school. Their pet pig, Penelope, gets into trouble in the backyard.

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City As Gym

  • January 5, 2021
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: February 2021 The last time I left the gym, I was thinking that as weird as it might look, maybe I should buy some surgical gloves to wear…
  • From the Editor

The Best of Us

  • January 4, 2021
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: December 2020 It’s good to be local. I mean, don’t get me wrong, we here in Fort Lauderdale love our tourist friends. They’re one of the main ways…
  • From the Editor

Selling Boats

  • November 12, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: November 2020 I’d be terrible at selling boats. I mean, I’d be terrible at selling most anything, but I feel like I’d find a way to somehow be…
  • From the Editor

Pretty Good

  • October 1, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: October 2020 Many seasons ago, when today’s mango trees were mango saplings and the Panthers were an expansion team, I studied journalism at a state university in the…
  • From the Editor

What Feels Good

  • August 31, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: September 2020 With so many people working from home and figuring out different routines, concepts like “work casual” can seem a bit different right now. Any work-from-home ensemble…
  • From the Editor

Care & Chairs

  • August 3, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: August 2020 This was a hard issue to put together. Hard because as it was being written and edited, the circumstances around some of our stories were changing…
  • From the Editor

The Fish Dip Guy

  • July 1, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: July 2020 In Fort Lauderdale, you either need a fish dip recipe or a fish dip guy. If you don’t make your own fish dip, it is a…
  • From the Editor

The Cyclist

  • June 2, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: June 2020 A few months back, somebody stole my old, dumb, slow bike, and I decided to replace it with something that has a bit more pep. That’s…
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Adapt & Thrive

  • May 1, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: May 2020 Like so many other things right now, the May issue of Fort Lauderdale Magazine was an exercise in improvisation. Monthly magazines get planned out well in…
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Developing Trends

  • March 31, 2020
  • Erik Petersen
Editor’s Letter: April 2020 People keep moving here. The cranes keep going up, neighborhoods keep changing and natives like me occasionally get turned around on streets that we could swear…

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