Michael Collier (poet)

Michael Robert Collier (born 1953) is an American poet, teacher, creative writing program administrator and editor. He has published five books of original poetry, a translation of Euripides' Medea, a book of prose pieces about poetry, and has edited three anthologies of poetry.

From 2001 to 2004 he was the Poet Laureate of Maryland.

From 1994 - 2017 he was the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Maryland, College Park and was the poetry editorial consultant for Houghton Mifflin (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).