| Mary Jo Salter | |
| Birth Date: | August 15, 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Occupation: | Poet, editor |
| Alma Mater: | Harvard University Cambridge University |
| Genre: | Poetry |
Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry[1] and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.
Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest.
While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet Elizabeth Bishop. She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic.
From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.
She has two daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser.
She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.[2]
The Frost Place poet in residence
Lamont Poetry Prize for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry - Unfinished Painting
Open Shutters named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship