Born in Brooklyn from Italian/Greek descent, Peter is indeed a man of many professions — including a microfilm clerk, an environmental and pharmaceutical chemist, a theatre actor, a freelance news camera operator, an NBC Page for The Tonight Show, and a camera technician for NBC/Universal Studios, until he finally discovered his niche: speculative fiction writer and editor/co-founder (along with literary master, Mark D’ Anna, the Kurt Vonnegut of our generation) of Ex Machina Press, the proud parent of Silent Voices: A Creative Mosaic Of Fiction. Peter received his BS in Chemistry and his MA in English (Creative Writing/Literature) from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. His early literary influences include Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King and many others.

His fiction and poetry have been published internationally. His gothic horror novella, The Chameleon's Addiction, was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Glacier Press Writing Contest and is now published online by Bards and Sages Publishing, who also published his short novel, The Grandmaster, a supernatural thriller that takes place during the Holocaust. Originally his graduate master’s thesis, The Grandmaster ranked third in Bards and Sages nationwide Speculative Fiction Novel Contest and is now on sale at amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. He has just completed his first short story collection, In His House. Two stories from that collection, “Crossing the Styx” and “Let Auld Acquaintances Be Forgot,” received critical recognition. “Styx” was awarded Best Unpublished Short Story at the 2007 DIY Book Festival in Los Angeles and “Auld” was selected as a winner in the 2007 Spider Thief Publishing Short Story Search Contest. He also often serves as a reviewer for the Literary Magazine Review (University of Wisconsin: River Falls). After finishing In Our House, Peter is beginning his second short story collection, Out Through the Exit Door, which he hopes to finish by Winter of 2008.