Peter Caster is an assistant professor of literature and film at the University of South Carolina Upstate and the author of the book Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film, published by The Ohio State University Press in 2008. He has written scholarly articles for the Drama Review, English Language Notes, Papers of the Bibliographical Society, and several collections on popular culture and teaching.

Peter has also written for The American Alpine Journal, The Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Literature, and Root magazine.  Currently, he is co-editing a collection of essays on black masculinity in U.S. history and literature.  After completing his MA in English at Oregon State University and PhD at The University of Texas at Austin, he moved to Spartanburg in 2005.  He wrote the introduction to the Hub City's Stars Fell on Spartanburg: Hub City's Celebrity Encounters. 

Peter is chairman of the Hub City Writers Project Advisory Committee and vice president of its host organization, HubCulture Inc.