Peter Money was born in California and was raised there and in Vermont and Massachusetts. While living briefly in Ireland as a student in Oberlin College's (Ohio) Dublin Program, he decided to devote his work to poetry.

In graduate school at Brooklyn College, while seeking to study with John Ashbery, Peter became Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg's student (an interview Peter and Allen did together is published in Provincetown Arts magazine). Since then, Peter has published several poetry books. (As his poetry was getting increasingly published, Peter was also quietly writing prose.)

With Sinan Antoon, Peter co-translated Arab modernist Saadi Youssef's Nostalgia, My Enemy (Graywolf Press). Peter's other books include These Are My Shoes, Minor Roads, A Big Yellow, Instruments, Between Ourselves, Finding It: Selected Poems, American Drone: New & Select Poems and the hybrid Che: A Novella In Three Parts. His work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Provincetown Arts, Slice, Talisman, First Intensity, in the City Lights anthology Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds, and on Garrison Keillor's "The Writer's Almanac", among others. Articles about his pursuits have appeared in Poets & Writers, the Associated Press, Seven Days and elsewhere. Peter has taught in a variety of settings including Brooklyn College, San Francisco WritersCorps, The Center For Cartoon Studies (VT), Lebanon College (NH), the state college systems in New Hampshire and Vermont, and as a guest artist with St. Andrews University (NC).