Mary Jo Salter is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Zoom Rooms (2022) and The Surveyors (2017). A co-editor of three editions of The Norton Anthology of Poetry, she is Guest Editor of The Best American Poetry 2024. Salter became a permanent member of the Writing Seminars faculty in 2007 and retired from teaching in 2022.  She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences and The Academy at Johns Hopkins.

The Best American Poetry 2024. Guest editor. Simon & Schuster, 2024.

Zoom Rooms. Poems.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.

The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 6th edition. Co-editor with Margaret Ferguson and Tim Kendall. W.W. Norton, 2018.

The Surveyors. Poems.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Nothing by Design.  Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.

The Selected Poems of Amy Clampitt. Editor. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 5th edition. Co-editor with Margaret Ferguson and Jon Stallworthy. W.W. Norton, 2005.

Open Shutters.  Poems.  Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

A Kiss in Space.  Poems. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt.  Editor.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th edition. Co-editor with Margaret Ferguson and Jon Stallworthy. W.W. Norton, 1996.

Sunday Skaters. Poems.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Unfinished Painting.  Poems.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

The Moon Comes Home.  For children.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

Henry Purcell in Japan.  Poems.  Alfred A. Knopf, 1985.