William Pitt Root

William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet.^[1] He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida, and went on to study at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.^[2][3]

Root was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College.^[4] He was also a US/UK Exchange Artist, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, Guggenheim Fellow,^[5] Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University, and an NEA fellow.^[6]

His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review,^[7] The Atlantic,^[8] The New Yorker,^[9] Harpers,^[10] The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, Tri@uarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.^[11]

He is married to poet Pamela Uschuk; they live near Durango, Colorado and Tucson, Arizona.