Peter Wurdock was born and raised in Royal Oak,
Michigan. A product of the public school system, he
graduated with honors from Dondero High School and later
attended Albion College with the intention of pursuing a
career in creative writing and journalism. He was later
accepted to the renowned Berklee College of Music in
Boston, MA, where he studied composition, arranging and
performance. Upon returning to Michigan, he worked part
time as a professional musician, playing professionally in
musical theater and performing with various bands in the
Detroit area.

Wurdock worked briefly in Nashville as a record promoter
with some of the top country artists of the 90’s. He came
back to Detroit to team up with Detroit music legend,
Stewart Francke and has played an important part in each of
Francke’s twelve award-winning releases since 1995.
He served as an officer on the Stewart Francke Leukemia
Foundation, helping raise money for leukemia patients and
their families, while helping create MOM (Musicians Outreach
of Michigan) along with Francke for cancer patients at Karmanos.
He was the Vice President of the Royal Oak Historical Society,
is an active member of the First United Methodist Church and
has acted in Community Theater projects.

Pete worked for 10 years as Marketing and Communications
Director for a leading non-profit senior housing agency in
metropolitan Detroit and continues to pursue creative
projects. They include writing fiction and non-fiction, plays,
music, poetry and photojournalism. His work as a writer and
photographer has appeared in Michigan magazines and
Newspapers including the Detroit News, the Detroit Jewish
News and other community papers. Recently one of his plays
was produced by a Michigan Theater as one of eight selected
from over 600 submissions in a juried festival. Still a bachelor,
Wurdock currently resides in Royal Oak, MI. His leisure time is
divided between relaxing at the family’s century-old cottage in
Delavan, WI and in a remote log cabin, deep within the Hiawatha
forest near Lake Superior in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Appearing on WJR in Detroit on the Mitch Albom Show