Geoffrey H. Dutton

Geoffrey Dutton is the author of the alt thriller Turkey Shoot, winner of the 2019 Courage in Fiction award by Independent Publishers of New England (IPNE.org). He came to creative writing after a thirty-year career in academia and industry. As a graduate student, he got interested in making maps with computers, and over the next quarter-century developed new approaches to digital mapmaking and organizing geographic data, turning out fifty papers, articles, and book chapters, plus his Ph.D. dissertation, published in 1999 by Springer and available on this site.

When his PhD turned out to be useful only as bragging rights, he embedded himself in software companies, as a developer, manager, and technical communicator. It was fun for a while, but slowly the potential of networked software to do bad things made him reconsider his career choice.

After being ejected from one tech company after another for being quarrelsome, under-productive, or simply redundant, he taught himself how to write good and struck out to produce hundreds of stories, articles, memoirs and diatribes at his blog progressivepilgrim.review and at counterpunch.org. Mostly he focused on birthing the novel Turkey Shoot, for which his travels in Europe and Turkey and his tech background came in handy. To learn more about the book and its backstory, visit https://perfidy.press/.

His story Petit Mal is included in the recent anthology As told by Things from Atthis Arts and chapter two of Turkey Shoot won a prize and publication in Seven Hills Review 2018.

Geoff lives in the Boston area with his wife, daughter, and two amiable pussycats. When he can, he forages for wild mushrooms that he cooks up for his his trusting family to eat.