Lloyd Schwartz (born November 29, 1941) is an American poet, and the Frederick S. Troy Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Lloyd Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York, graduated from Queens College in 1962 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976.
Schwartz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1994 for his work with The Boston Phoenix and the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Poetry in 2019. In 2021 he received an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate Award, and in 2025 he became the fifth recipient of The David Ferry-Ellen LaForge Annual Poetry Award bestowed by Suffolk University and the New England Poetry Club awarded him the Sam Cornish Award, which “honors long-standing poets in New England for their artistic contributions, literary advocacy, and mentorship, recognizing their significant impact on the literary community.” He has also received the 2026 Sam Cornish Award from the New England Poetry Club for his poetry and service to the poetry community.
A noted scholar of the poet Elizabeth Bishop, Schwartz served as co-editor of the collection Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art (University of Michigan Press, 1983), of an edition of the collected works of Elizabeth Bishop for the Library of America, entitled Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters (2008), and edited the centennial edition of Elizabeth Bishop’s Prose for Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011). He received two consecutive awards from the United States Information Agency to lecture on Elizabeth Bishop and to teach American poetry in Brazil, 1990-1991.
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