Peter D. Sieruta (October 13, 1958 – May 25, 2012) was an American writer and book critic.
Sieruta first came to prominence due to the 1989 publication of Heartbeats and Other Stories, a collection of nine young adult stories, which attracted positive notice from School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly.
At the time of his death, Sieruta had largely completed the manuscript for another book, Wild Things!
: Acts of Mischief in Children's Books, co-written with Betsy Bird and Julie Danielson.
[2] Sieruta died in 2012 from complications due to a fall he had suffered several days earlier.