Baron Wormser authored over a dozen books of prose and poetry. He lived with his wife Janet in Montpelier, Vermont from 2007 until his death in 2025. He served as Poet Laureate of the State of Maine and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2023 his memoir, The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid, was reissued by Brandeis University Press.