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.