Kathleen Peterson

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Kathleen Peterson is a published freelance writer and playwright in Winona, MN.  She has had short plays presented at Theatre du Mississippi, including the two first “Drops and Drama” productions featuring the historic Masonic drops collection.  Her “New Menu” play was among the eight winners in the 2012 Rochester Repertory Theatre’s “Ten-Minute Plays” national competition.  She was awarded an individual artist grant from the Southeastern MN Arts Council in 2012 for a staged reading of her a one-actor play about Charles Dickens, "The Ghost of an Idea."  This script is available through The Script Co.   In the fall of 2014 she was commissioned to write a play set in 1920’s Winona, called “The Bootleg Blues.”  In December of 2014 she published the novel Summer for the Taking with Bookshelf Editions in Winona.  Her writing has appeared in Big River Magazine, Coulee Region Women’s Magazine, Tapestry Magazine, as well as area newspapers.

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Kathleen Peterson

Kathleen Peterson is a published freelance writer and playwright in Winona, MN.  She has had short plays presented at Theatre du Mississippi, including the two first “Drops and Drama” productions featuring the historic Masonic drops collection.  Her “New Menu” play was among the eight winners in the 2012 Rochester Repertory Theatre’s “Ten-Minute Plays” national competition.  She was awarded an individual artist grant from the Southeastern MN Arts Council in 2012 for a staged reading of her a one-actor play about Charles Dickens, "The Ghost of an Idea."  This script is available through The Script Co.   In the fall of 2014 she was commissioned to write a play set in 1920’s Winona, called “The Bootleg Blues.”  In December of 2014 she published the novel Summer for the Taking with Bookshelf Editions in Winona.  Her writing has appeared in Big River Magazine, Coulee Region Women’s Magazine, Tapestry Magazine, as well as area newspapers.

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