Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL is the founder and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press Limited, the general editor of PN Review, and Professor of Poetry and convener of the Creative Writing programme in the Department of English, University of Glasgow.
He is currently engaged in writing Lives of the Novelists, a companion volume to Lives of the Poets (1999). His most recent anthologies include, The Great Modern Poets, published by Quercus on National Poetry Day 2006; Five American Poets (including Robert Hass, James McMichael, John Matthias, John Peck, and Robert Pinsky), published by Carcanet in 2010, and New Poetries V, including 22 hitherto uncollected anglophone poets from around ther world, in 2011. His collection of poems The Resurrection of the Body was published in 2007. His Collected Poems appeared in 2009.