Rory Waterman (born in Belfast, 1981) is a poet resident in England.
Waterman was born in Belfast and grew up in Nocton, Lincolnshire, before taking degrees at the University of Leicester and Durham University.
Waterman is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University and co-edits the literary and arts magazine New Walk. He is also a critic and reviewer, and writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and other publications. His poetry has been shortlisted for a Seamus Heaney Prize and has been made a PBS Recommendation.
In August 2015, Waterman was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.