Peter W. Yaremko

A former Ukrainian Catholic seminarian, Peter began his career as a journalist in New York City and went on to head communications for units of two blue-chip multinationals, IBM and Siemens. He then founded and operated for two decades a marketing agency partnering primarily with hi-tech Silicon Valley firms. He’s had a novel published along with four non-fiction books, writes poetry that appears in literary magazines, and has posted a weekly blog for more than ten years running. He has taught college writing classes and now volunteers with the American Cancer Society in teaching poetry classes designed to equip cancer patients and caregivers with an additional tool to help them deal with the trauma of the disease. He was married to his college sweetheart for fifty years until her death from breast cancer. He has two daughters, and currently lives across the street from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. At various stages of his life, he’s also played roles as a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn, and a king.