Eric Peterson is a novelist and playwright. His plays include an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, Seven Strangers in a Circle, nominee, Best Play, Washington Theatre Festival, and Smoke & Mirrors. He has been a regular contributor to Letters from CAMP Rehoboth and NBC Out and co-hosts The Rewind Project, a podcast about old movies and modern times. He has been a finalist in the Saints + Sinners Short Fiction Contest. His first novel, Loyalty, Love, & Vermouth, was published by Bold Strokes Books in 2021.