Peter Neill

Peter is an author and publisher based in Sedgwick, Maine. His fiction includes three novels: A Time Piece, Mock Turtle Soup, and Acoma. Non-Fiction: Great Maritime Museums of the World, Maritime America, The Once and Future Ocean - Notes toward a New Hydraulic Society, and Aqua/Terra - Reflections on the World Ocean. Anthologies: The City: American Experience, and American Sea Writing. He is founder and publisher of Leete's Island Books, a columnist for the Island Institute's Working Waterfront, and the host of Conversations from the Pointed Firs, monthly interviews with authors and artists who invoke "the spirit of Maine," broadcast on WERU Community Radioin Blue Hill and available as podcast or on Maine Monitor.

He is founder/director of the World Ocean Observatory, an online place of exchange of responsible science and educational resources about the ocean defined as an integrated, global, social system; the host of World Ocean Radio, a syndicated audio feature and podcast, distributed worldwide;  the publisher/editor of World Ocean Journal, an online digital magazine for ocean solutions; and frequent contributor to magazines, films, exhibits, and other expressions of the contribution of maritime heritage to world history and culture. He is a co-founder and trustee of the Arctic Futures Institute, former president of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York, former chair of the Ocean Classroom Foundation, former trustee of the Penobscot Marine Museum, Apogee Arts, and The ApprenticeShop --  cultural and educational organizations based in Maine.