I wrote and performed in plays for Radio Drama Workshop '79, produced by the Minority Arts Ensemble and aired on Pacifica Radio WPFW in Washington, D.C.
During the 1990’s, I wrote and narrated training videos for the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C.
Read samples of my fiction at numerous book signings in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Studied motion picture, television, and theater production at the University of Wisconsin, 1975-1977. Worked with the Metropolitan Police Department's Media Production Unit during the 1990's.
“Quintin Peterson, a working police officer and natural born writer, pens crime fiction that is earned and alive.”
– George Pelecanos, author of THE TURNAROUND
Quintin Peterson is the author of several plays and screenplays. He is a native Washingtonian.
As a junior high school student, he attended the Corcoran School of Art on a scholarship. While still in high school, he was honored with the University of Wisconsin’s Science Fiction Writing Award and the National Council of Teachers of English Writing Award. Upon receiving the Wisconsin Junior Academy’s Writing Achievement Award, his name was included in Who’s Who Among American High School Students of 1975.
As an undergraduate communications major at the University of Wisconsin, he wrote and performed in two plays for stage and videotape and received a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation grant for his play project, Change. A National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship and a playwriting grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities followed. Subsequently, two of his radio plays were aired on WPFW-FM Pacifica Radio as productions of the Minority Arts Ensemble’s Radio Drama Workshop ’79.
Mr. Peterson has been a police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department for 26 years and is currently assigned to its Office of Public Information as a media liaison officer. He is also a liaison between the department and members of the motion picture and television industries, acting as a script consultant and technical advisor. During the 1990’s, he wrote and narrated training videos for the police department.
He is the author of a book of poetry, Nativity, two novels, SIN and The Wages of SIN; is a contributor to the crime fiction anthology D.C. Noir, edited by George Pelecanos; and his short crime thrillers A Dark Place, The Kingsley Affair, Forsaken, and Frankenstein’s Alive and Well are Amazon Shorts, available exclusively at Amazon. Also, Mr. Peterson is an Active Member of Mystery Writers of America.