Peter Waldor

Peter Waldor was born in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a BA from Tufts University and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of four collections of poetry: The Unattended Harp (2015); Who Touches Everything (2014), winner of a National Jewish Book Award in Poetry; The Wilderness Poetry of Wu Xing (2013); and Door to a Noisy Room (2008), which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in Poetry. The online magazine Mudlark published his book-length poem Leg Paint. Inspired by Judaic literature, Waldor’s poems have been described as “lyrical meditations on familial love, religious tales, and morality … anchored to the page with stoic authority.” 

A former poet-in-residence at Franklin & Marshall College and former poet laureate of San Miguel County in Colorado, Waldor has worked in the insurance industry for more than 20 years. He lives in northern New Jersey and Telluride, Colorado.