Poet Peter Payack has won numerous awards including recently been awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award by the prestigious, Marquis Who's Who.
Peter Payack also won the 1980 Rhysling Award, for the best science fiction poem, The Migration Of Darkness. Poet Peter Payack also received a "Commendation from The Commonwealth of Massachusetts" for his work in the arts in 1983. As a Professor Peter Payack received the "2010 Haskell Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching" from The University of Massachusetts Lowell.