Pete Nunnally is an avid fisherman and an ordained Episcopal priest. Born and raised in Virginia, he taught middle school physical education for five years before moving to New Orleans to work in Hurricane Katrina recovery with the Diocese of Louisiana.

He graduated from Virginia Theological Seminary, and is the founder of Water and Wilderness Church, a carbon-neutral watershed of spiritual and religious seekers who worship, read and study, and retreat together in the wild places of God's abundant creation, integrating into the wider, wilder life of God. He lives in the Washington, DC, area.