Peter Shaver graduated from the University of Scranton in 2018 with degrees in English and journalism. During his time at the university, he won the Berrier Poetry Award and a SCCC 2018 Creative Writing Award for College Writers. He is from Shavertown, Pennsylvania. Previous poems have been published in Esprit, the Bluffton Bridge, and Catfish Creek.

Peter’s poem Almost Standing Still is in An Outbreak of Peace