Lloyd Schwartz is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English and teaches poetry in the MFA program at UMass Boston. He has published four volumes of poems, including These People, Goodnight, Gracie, Cairo Traffic, and most recently Little Kisses (University of Chicago Press, 2017). A noted Elizabeth Bishop scholar, he had edited Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan Press), The Library of American’s Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, and the centennial edition of her Prose (FSG). The longtime Classical Music Editor of the Boston Phoenix and classical music critic for NPR's Fresh Air, he's now also Senior Editor of Classical Music for the web-journal New York Arts and Contributing Arts Critic for Boston’s National Public Radio station WBUR’s the ARTery.

His honors include an NEA grant in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, inclusion in The Best American Poetry and The Best of the Best American Poetry, three ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for his writing about music, and, in 1994, the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.