Career
George Witte is the author of two books of poetry: Deniability: Poems, published by Orchises Press in 2009, and The Apparitioners: Poems, published by Three Rail Press in 2005.
His poems have also been published in The Atlantic, Boulevard, Gettysburg Review, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, New York Quarterly, Southwest Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Witte has also worked in book publishing at St. Martin's Press for twenty five years, as an editor, the publisher of Picador USA, and now as editor in chief. He lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey with his wife and two children.
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