William Pitt Root (born 1941 Austin, Minnesota) is an American poet.[1]
He was raised in Fort Myers, Florida.[2]
He studied at the University of Washington, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro.[3]
He was Tucson Poet Laureate from 1997 to 2002, and taught at Hunter College.[4] He was 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