Presenter Bio

Recently retired, Jeffrey Peterson taught at The College Preparatory School in Oakland for many years, offering a range of courses channeling his love of language and the natural world: a Moby-Dick seminar called “Deadliest Catches,” a river course called “What the River Knew,” and a survey of avian literature called “Life of the Skies.” He is the author of Or, The Whale by Jos Sances: Ark of the Anthropocene (Johns Hopkins University Press).