Mary Jo Salter (poetry) is the author of six collections of poems, all published by Alfred A. Knopf: Henry Purcell in Japan (1985), Unfinished Painting (1989, winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Lamont Prize), Sunday Skaters (1994), A Kiss in Space (1999), Open Shutters (2003), and A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems (2008). Her edition of The Selected Poems of Amy Clampitt was published by Knopf in 2010. She has written a book for children, The Moon Comes Home (Knopf, 1989), and, with Margaret Ferguson and Jon Stallworthy, co-edited the fourth and fifth editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1996 and 2004). She has held an Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and from other institutions including the Bogliasco, Rockefeller, Ingram Merrill, and Guggenheim foundations. A series of songs, Rooms of Light, written by jazz composer and pianist Fred Hersch to her lyrics, was performed at Lincoln Center in January 2007. Her play, Falling Bodies (2004), saw a new production at Infinity Box Theater in Seattle in 2012. She is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore.