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Benny B. Peterson

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Benny B. Peterson (they/them) is a writer and editor based near Washington, DC. A contributing editor at Washingtonian magazine, they have also worked at Foreign Policy, the New Republic, and Street Sense, DC’s street newspaper. They have written about culture, politics, gender, and LGBTQ+ issues for The New York TimesWashington PostElleSlate, and The Atlantic, among other places, and received an MFA in fiction from Bennington.

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