Peter LaBerge

Origin

Peter founded The Adroit Journal as a high school sophomore in November 2010 and he hasn't slowed down since. The author of two poetry chapbooks, he is currently at work on his debut full-length collection, Century Flower.

Editorial Eye

Peter has provided early editorial recognition to such luminaries as K-Ming Chang, Chen Chen, Richie Hofmann, Talin Tahajian, Ocean Vuong, Phillip B. Williams, and Shelley Wong, among others. He founded the online Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, which connects high school writers from around the world with established poets, fiction writers, and memoirists, and founded three annual prize opportunities for emerging writers: the Adroit Prizes for Poetry & Prose, the Gregory Djanikian Scholars Program in Poetry, and the Anthony Veasna So Scholars Program in Fiction. Peter has also taught creative writing to undergraduates at New York University and to middle school students in New York City.

Mentorship

Through Ellipsis, Peter has independently mentored students who have subsequently been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation, the National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the National Student Poets Program, the Foyle Young Poet of the Year Awards, Princeton University, the Davidson Fellows Program, the U.S. Presidential Scholar Program, the Best American Series, TASP, the Coke Scholars Program, the GE-Reagan Scholars Program, and the Bryan Cameron Scholars Program. They've been featured at the White House, the Kennedy Center, the United Nations, the New York City Poetry Festival, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and by BBC News, The Boston Globe, Disney Channel, Teen Vogue, and The Wall Street Journal.

You can view Peter's 2024 YoungArts Educator Certificate here, alongside the twenty-two Ellipsis students recognized by YoungArts that year.