BIO

Peter Trivelas recently completed a first novel and is writing a collection of short stories. The novel is currently a Finalist in the Page Turner Awards contest. An excerpt from the novel was 1st runner-up for the 2022 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award. His work has appeared in Line of Advance Literary Journal, Deadly Writer’s Patrol, Blood & Bourbon, Thema Literary Journal, The Sunlight Press, Dime Show Review and various anthologies. In 2021, he was included in a special edition of WordTheatre, the premier global internet spoken word program. He’s a longtime member of the UCLA Wordcommandos creative writing workshop for veterans.

Trivelas’s career began as a television editor at WGBH in Boston. After moving to New York City in the 1980s, he edited network TV shows and became a member of The Writers Guild of America, writing copy for ABC News. The independent documentary he edited, The Men Who Brought the Dawn, about the surviving crew members who bombed Hiroshima, is in the Smithsonian Institute archives. He was a staff editor on The Martha Stewart Show which won seven daytime Emmys during his stint there.

Writer

1970 - present day

Completed my first novel and presently working on a collection of short stories.

Transcendental Meditation Instructor

2005 – present

• At the Los Angeles office of the David Lynch Foundation (2014 – present), I teach TM to veterans with PTSD as the head of the DLF veterans outreach program. Also teach students, staff and faculty in South LA and East LA, populated by high-risk students, often suffering with acute stress symptoms.

• As Director of Programs at the New York City office of the David Lynch Foundation (2005 - 2014), I introduced the TM Quiet Time Program and taught TM in middle and high schools, taught veterans with PTSD at Veteran’s Centers and Hospitals, led an initiative to teach a large group of first responders who suffered trauma at the Newtown, CT school shooting. On the team that brought a TM program to Norwich University, a military training school in Vermont.

Television Production

1980 – 2006

Both as freelance and as staff, worked at various times as editor, writer, producer and manager. Employers include:

NBC, ABC, PBS. Martha Stewart Living Television. Worked on Good Morning America, NBC Today show, NBC Evening News, Discovery Channel’s “The Justice Files,” Nickelodeon’s “Nick News,” WGBH’s "Evening at Pops" and “American Playhouse”. Also worked on award-winning documentaries and independent shorts, some of which were featured at the San Francisco Museum of Art.

Transcendental Meditation Instructor

1974 – 1980

Director of a TM Center in the Boston area, instructing the general public during the first big waves of interest in TM in this country.

Education and Military

1963 – present

• Member of UCLA Wordcommandos creative writing workshop for veterans

• Graduated with a BFA in Filmmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute

• Studied Mass Media as an undergraduate at the University of Houston

• Served three years on the USS Intrepid in the Intelligence Office during the Vietnam War. Top Secret Security Clearance. Second Class Petty Officer.

• Photographic Intelligence Training at Lowry Air Force Base, Denver

• Studied Civil Engineering at Clarkson College of Technology for two years

• Graduated from the Albany Academy military high school

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Curriculum Vitae (aka Resume)

BIO

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Curriculum Vitae (aka Resume)

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