George Merrill Witte is an American poet and book editor from Madison, New Jersey.
[1] Witte is the author of four books of poetry: An Abundance of Caution, Does She Have a Name?, Deniability, and The Apparitioners.
Witte has also worked in book publishing at St. Martin's Press for 38 years, as an editor, publisher of Picador USA, and now editor-in-chief.
A graduate of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
[5] Witte received Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize for a group of poems, a poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts and New Jersey Department of State, and his poem "At Dusk, the Catbird" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007 anthology.