With my Dad, celebrating the beauty of the Upper Peninsula before I could walk.

Appearing on WJR in Detroit on the Mitch Albom Show

Backstage with Keith Urban on his birthday for a special presentation from his fan club

Peter Wurdock

Peter Wurdock is the Upper Peninsula Poet Laureate of Luce County. He was born and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan. He attended Albion College with the intention of pursuing a career in creative writing and journalism but was later accepted to the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, where he studied composition, arranging and performance. Upon returning to Michigan, he worked part time as a professional musician, playing professionally in musical theater and performing with various bands in the Detroit area.

Wurdock worked briefly in Nashville as a record promoter with some of the top country artists of the 90’s. He came back to Detroit to team up with Detroit music legend, Stewart Francke and has played an important part in each of Francke’s fourteen award-winning releases since 1995.

As a writer and photographer his work has appeared in local, regional and national publications. His leisure time is divided between his family’s century-old cottage in Delavan, WI and in a remote log cabin, deep within the Hiawatha forest near Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. He is single and currently resides in Newberry, MI with his two adopted Greyhounds.