W.T. Pfefferle

W.T. Pfefferle (born 1962) is an Canadian-born american poet, prose author, and academic.

Life
Pfefferle was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His half-sister is the noted Canadian landscape photographer, Camille Wolfson-Pfefferle.

He has worked as a college professor, most recently as the Director of Expository Writing at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

He is the author of four books. 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.

Recognition
His poetry collection The Meager Life and Modest Times of Pop Thorndale won the Stevens Poetry Manuscript Prize.