Peter Simpson is Director of The Holloway Press at the University of Auckland.

He is a well-known writer, editor and curator, and his books include Ronald Hugh Morrieson (Oxford University Press Australia, 1982) and Colin McCahon: The Titirangi Years 1953-59 (Auckland University Press, 2007).

He contributed to the Oxford History of New Zealand, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and extensively to The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. A prolific writer, his articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications.