Peter was born in 1941 and lived in Western Australia. A short story writer, he was also a poet, writing children’s and Australian bush poetry. He studied at Edith Cowan University and earned a degree in writing at the age of sixty-eight. His short stories and poetry have been published in several anthologies, magazines and on websites. A member of the Peter Cowan Writers Centre, he also ran workshops on creative writing and poetry.

Sadly Peter passed in October 2020.

His most recent IFWG publication is In the Heat of the Day, a climate change science fiction novel for adult readers.