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W.T. Pfefferle was born in Winnipeg and grew up in western Canada. He relocated to the U.S. in the late 1970s to study. He earned his MFA and PhD in the 1980s and began a 35-year academic teaching career. He was the founding director of the Expository Writing Program at Johns Hopkins.
He published five books and more than a hundred poems, stories, photos, and articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poets and Writers, Antioch Review, New York Review of Books, Boston Review, Carolina Quarterly, Ohio Review, North American Review, Indiana Review, Nimrod, New Orleans Review, Paris Review, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere.
He played in a ton of bad bar bands through the 80s and 90s and released several independent Americana albums on his own and with the fellas in the Eddy Band. In his later years, he produced several electronic releases as Droning Keyboard Group with labels in Holland, England, the U.S., Italy, Germany, Ecuador, and India.
He married his college sweetheart Beth in 1984, and they spent their lives with ornery Boston Terriers, much driving, occasional and mediocre golf, and homes in 13 states. He retired from public life in 2019.