Peter Waldor

Who is Peter Waldor?

Peter Waldor is an American poet and insurance executive. He is author of Door to a Noisy Room, winner of a Kinereth Gensler Award, and praised by Publishers Weekly as “…familial, humane, and loyal to the good people and the simple delights of this world.” He has had his poems published in literary journals and magazines including The American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Margie, Mothering Magazine, Mudlark, Negative Capability, Ploughshares, Potomac Review, RUNES, Sugar Mule, Tikkun, West Branch, and The 2River View.

Waldor earned his B.A. from Tufts University, and received an undergraduate award from the American Academy of Poets. He earned his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and served as poet-in-residence at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, before beginning his career in the insurance business. Waldor was born in Newark, grew up in South Orange, and currently lives in Short Hills, New Jersey with his wife, Jody Miller, and their three children. He is also a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board.