Peter Craven (born 1949 or 1950)[1] is an Australian literary critic and cultural studies writer.
[2] While enrolled for a Master of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Craven met Michael Heyward with whom he founded Scripsi, a literary magazine which was published from 1981 to 1994.
[4] His work has also appeared in Oxford Guide to Contemporary Writing, the Times Literary Supplement and London Review of Books.
[1] In 2004 he was awarded the Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year.
The legal academic Greg Craven is his younger brother.