Peter Munro

PETER MUNRO was born in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1957. He was raised in small fishing towns, going through his biggest changes in Sitka, Alaska. This has left him permanently afflicted with a love of fishing. Munro used to conduct research fishing in the Bering Sea, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands. The data were to help estimate annual harvest levels of commercially important demersal fishes. When not at sea, the sad poet was chained to a computer in Seattle, mis-underestimating abundance parameters, failing to write papers, and making poems by night.  Now retired, Munro makes poems by day, out in the open, without fear of being found out. This now-happy poet studies in the MFA program at the UW. His poems have been published here and there.