Peter Street

Peter Street is a British-Irish autistic author and poet, born in Wigan 1948. He has published five poetry collections, performing his work internationally and on television and radio—including BBC Manchester where he was poet in residence. He won a National Poetry Society commission, and wrote a series of poems in collaboration with fine artist Tony Bevan.

Street was a Royal Literary Fund recipient and has been writer-in-residence in schools, colleges and prisons. He is also a qualified youth worker, and previously worked as a chef, head gardener, gravedigger and exhumer.

Peter was diagnosed epileptic at fifteen, and fifty years later, after returning from war torn Croatia with PTSD, received his formal autism diagnosis at the age of sixty-six. He lives with his wife Sandra, and has two children and six grandchildren.