"Copy-editing Skills" course, Book House Training Centre (London), 1990.
B.A. in Liberal Arts (interdisciplinary Great Books program), St. John's College (Annapolis), 1987. Bachelor's thesis: "The Heart Has Its Reasons: The Role of Irrationality in Romantic Love [as Stated by Plato and Dante]."
Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, 2006-present.
Erotic Authors Association, 2005-present.
Erotic Romance Writers International, 2005-2006.
Washington Independent Writers, 1995-1997 (approximately; years not recorded).
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, 1992-1995.
All works below were self-published under the press name of duskpeterson.com.
Leather, Licking, and Lawnmowers (contemporary fiction e-book, audio book, and booktrailer), 2008.
Bard of Pain (fantasy e-book, audio book, and booktrailer), 2007. Amazon Kindle edition: 2008.
Turn-of-the-Century Toughs (historical fantasy booktrailer), 2006.
Various works of online fiction, 2002-present.
"Offstage" (historical fantasy), MAS-Zine (Spring 2004).
"The New Boy" (historical fantasy), MAS-Zine (Autumn 2003).
"Barbarians" (historical fantasy), MAS-Zine (Spring 2003).
"Hidden" (historical fantasy), MAS-Zine (Spring 2003).
"Debt Price" (historical fantasy), MAS-Zine (Autumn 2002).
Topman's Timeline: A Documentary Biography of John Preston. 2004-present. An online project incorporating documents by and about the author John Preston, as well as remembrances from his friends and colleagues.
"Drag Queens, Leathermen, and Telling the Truth: Franny and the Life of John Preston" (literary biography), in John Preston, Franny, the Queen of Provincetown (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005).
"The History of DS and Its Kin" (social history), in Jack Rinella's LeatherViews column, Gay Chicago Magazine (April 23, 2005).
"Romantic Friendship: Not Just a Code Word for Gay" (social history), The World History of Male Love (2004).
Afterword (history of mythology), Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths, by Andrew Calimach (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Haiduk Press, 2002).
"The Misguided Search for 'Homoeroticism': A Plea for Research on Friendship," (social history), The World History of Male Love (2002).
"The Eternal Debate in Classical Times" (social history), The World History of Male Love (2002).
"Trampling Down Death by Death" (religion news commentary), Paraklesis (Winter 2001).
"Burning Coals" (religion), Paraklesis (Summer 2001).
"For Those Who Persecute You" (religion), Whosoever (January/February 1998); Gay Theological Journal (May/August 1998), 54-56.
"Hipparchus and His Daring List of Stars" (history of science), Odyssey (April 1997), 8-11.
"The Carol Crusader" (history of music), Highlights for Children (December 1996), 16-17.
". . . And the Weather Today Includes Comets and Meteors" (history of science), Odyssey (February 1995), 4-7.
"The Tree That Told Time" (social history), Faces (December 1994), 20-21.
"The Case of the Colonial Font" (history of religious art), God's World Today (13 May 1994), 6-7.
"The Singing Planets" (history of science), Odyssey (December 1993), 18-21.
"Church Shapes in Colonial America" (history of religious art), God's World Today (15 October 1993), 6-7.
"Unitarian Roots in Architecture: The Puritan Meetinghouse" (history of religious art), The Unitarian Universalist Christian (Spring/Summer 1993), 19-26.
"The Puritan Meetinghouse That Wasn't" (history of religious art), The Anglican (Spring 1993), 8-9.
PUBLISHING, EDITING, AND STAFF WORK
Columnist, POD People (multi-author blog of news and reviews on print-on-demand books and e-books), 2008-present.
Publisher and editor of The Slash Skinny (publishing news and market report), 2007.
Director, Erotic Authors Association, 2007.
Publisher, editor, and staff writer, True Tales: An Erotic E-zine of Masculinity and Power, 2005-present. The e-zine is a corporate member of the Erotic Authors Association. Articles reprinted by Ambush Mag and HPEP Newsletter.
Volunteer beta reader (manuscript critiquer) of male homoerotic fiction, 2002-present.
Publisher, editor, and staff writer, Philia (interfaith newsmagazine), 1999-2002. Article reprinted by Church Net UK.
Publisher, editor, and staff writer, Greenbelt Interfaith News (newsmagazine), 1997-1999. Articles reprinted by Anglicans Online (Canada/U.S.), BICNews (Belfast Islamic Centre, U.K.), Church Net UK, FEZANA Journal (Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America), Golden Compass (Belgium), Minnesota Pagan Press (U.S.), and RE-XS (U.K.).
Editorial assistant, The Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore), 1990-1992.
Editorial assistant, The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (Maryland journal), 1989-1990.
Copy editor and staff writer, Gowanda Penny Saver News (New York newspaper), 1989.
Proofreader and staff writer, Greenbelt News Review (Maryland newspaper), 1988-1989, 1995-1997.
Copy editor and staff writer, The Gadfly (college newspaper), 1982-1987.
Proofreader, The Cottage Press (Maryland small press), 1981.
Copy editor and staff writer, The Review (high school newspaper), 1978-1981.
Staff member, Raider's Digest (high school literary magazine), 1978-1981.
Research assistant for two literary history scholars and a museum access and education consultant, for projects on John Betjeman, Max Beerbohm, and the history of blind scientists, 1989-1990, 1992, 1998.
Dusk Peterson has received the following honors:
Runner-up, 2006 Rauxa Prize for erotic fiction, for the short story "Spontaneous."
Nominee, Mid-Atlantic Regional category, Pantheon of Leather community service awards (sponsored by The Leather Journal), after first year and a half of leather writing and editing, 2006.
Awarded the Alfred E. Skolnik Scholarship for excellence in journalism
(sponsored by the Greenbelt News Review), 1981.
Dusk Peterson's e-zine True Tales has received the following honors:
Nominee, Best Erotic E-zine category, Cybersocket Web Awards, 2008.
Four finalists, 2006 Rauxa Prize for Erotic Writing.
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