Peter Huston
About the Author Peter Huston is a former newspaper reporter who has lived in the Stockade neighborhood of Schenectady while covering the Hilltowns of rural Albany County as a newspaper reporter. He has covered waste disposal news as a journalist. He is the author of three published, non-fiction books, many magazine articles, and countless media reviews, newspaper stories, and op-ed pieces. His writing has been translated into half a dozen languages. He's worked as an EMT, Security Guard,...See more
About the Author Peter Huston is a former newspaper reporter who has lived in the Stockade neighborhood of Schenectady while covering the Hilltowns of rural Albany County as a newspaper reporter. He has covered waste disposal news as a journalist. He is the author of three published, non-fiction books, many magazine articles, and countless media reviews, newspaper stories, and op-ed pieces. His writing has been translated into half a dozen languages. He's worked as an EMT, Security Guard, Newspaper Journalist, Teacher of English as a Second Language in the USA, Taiwan, and China, as well as a Concert and Large Event Security person, Refugee Relocation Worker, and, for a short, unhappy time as a New York State Tax Collector in a phone bank. He has several hobbies and has competed at the national level in skeleton, a high speed, sledding sport related to bobsledding, something he has also dabbled in. He has a strong interest in Asian languages and cultures, having lived in Taiwan for four years, Shanghai for two more years, and having earned a Master's degree in East Asian Studies from Cornell University. See less
