William Pitt Root

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

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

His work appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harpers, The Nation, Commonweal, The American Poetry Review, Tri@uarterly, and Poetry. He is poetry editor of Cutthroat Magazine.

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