He has won the Newburyport Art Association 2004 Poetry Prize, Honorable Mention in the 2005 Morton Marr Prize competition, the 2006 Ibbetson Press Poetry Prize, and a number of New England Poetry Club awards, including the 2006 Erika Mumford Award. New York-born, Mr. Cantor retired in 1999 from a lengthy career as an industrial executive, and presently resides on Plum Island, north of Boston on the Massachusetts coast. He has lived and worked in Japan, Belgium, Mexico and Brazil.