Baron Wormser is the author of twenty books including novels, a memoir, a book of short stories, two coauthored books about teaching poetry, and many books of poetry (including The Poetry Life Ten Stories, 2008, Impenitent Notes, 2011, Unidentified Sighing Objects, 2015, and The History Hotel, 2023, all published by CavanKerry Press). Essays of his appeared in Best American Essays 2014 and 2018. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2000 to 2005, he served as poet laureate of the state of Maine and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Maine at Augusta. He is the founder of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife Janet.