Michael Schmidt is the editor of PN Review, and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester, England, and is also Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow.

He is currently engaged in writing Lives of the Novelists, a companion volume to Lives of the Poets (1999), and one further-- the fourth -- volume of The Story of Poetry. His most recent anthology, The Great Modern Poets, was published by Quercus on National Poetry Day 2006. His collection of poems The Resurrection of the Body was published in January 2007 in the United Kingdom and in March 2007 in the United States. In the autumn of 2009 his Collected Poems will appear.

Website : www.michaelschmidt.org.uk