Peter Waldor is the author of Door to a Noisy Room (Alice James Books) which was a finalist for the 2009 National Jewish Book Award, The Wilderness Poetry of Wu Xing (Pinyon Publishing,) and Who Touches Everything (Settlement House). His book length poem Leg Paint appeared in the on-line magazine Mudlark. His work has appeared in many journals, including the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, the Iowa Review, the Colorado Review, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily and Mothering Magazine. Waldor works in the insurance business and lives in northern New Jersey.