Peter Anastas was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1937 and attended local schools. He holds degrees in English from Bowdoin College and Tufts University. In addition, he studied Medieval Literature at the University of Florence, Italy. Among his publications are Glooskap's Children: Encounters with the Penobscot Indians of Maine (Beacon Press), Landscape with Boy, a novella in the Boston University Fiction Series, At the Cut, a memoir of growing up in Gloucester in the 1940s (Dogtown Books), Broken Trip, a novel of Gloucester in the 1990s (Glad Day Books), and No Fortunes, a novel set at Bowdoin in the 1950s (Back Shore Press), along with fiction and non-fiction in Niobe, The Falmouth Review, Stations, America One, The Larcom Review, Polis, Split Shift, Cafe Review, Sulfur, Art New England, Architecture Boston, House Organ, and Process. Anastas is the editor of Maximus to Gloucester: The Letters and Poems of Charles Olson to the Editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, 1962-1969 (Ten Pound Island Books). He has recently completed a sequel to his memoir At the Cut, to be called "From Gloucester Out" and has published a new novel, Decline of Fishes (Back Shore Press), also set in Gloucester, along with A Walker in the City: Elegy for Gloucester, a selection from some of the 620 weekly columns Anastas published in the Gloucester Times between 1978-1990.