Emerita Professor
Mary Jo Salter received her B.A. cum laude in English from Harvard, and her M.A. First Class in English from Cambridge. An honorary Doctor of Letters of Amherst College, she spent many years teaching at Mount Holyoke College before coming to Johns Hopkins’s Writing Seminars department in 2006, retiring in 2022. Knopf has published all nine of her poetry collections, most recently Zoom Rooms (2022). Co-editor of three editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Current Interests: Writing, giving talks/readings, mentoring, serving on the council of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW), serving as literary executor for two poets.