W. T. Pfefferle

Who is W. T. Pfefferle?

W.T. Pfefferle is an author and poet born in 1962 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, but who was based in Texas for many years. His half-sister is the noted Canadian landscape photographer, Camille Wolfson-Pfefferle.

He's the author of four books. The most recent is "The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale," a poetry collection that won the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize.

He has worked as a college professor, most recently as the Director of Expository Writing at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He co-authored Plug In: The Guide to Music on the Internet with Ted M. Gurley, a media executive in Texas. Pfefferle also wrote Writing What Matters, a collegiate writing textbook. In 2004, Pfefferle published Poets on Place, the story of his year-long trip around America interviewing and photographing American poets: Mark Strand, Rita Dove, Denise Duhamel, Charles Wright, Mark Wunderlich, Henry Taylor, David St. John, and Nikki Giovanni.