Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher.
After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he is now on faculty at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.
[3] He worked for three years as a research fellow at the Kyoto Comparative Law Center in Japan.
He was married to the poet Mary Jo Salter for many years (they divorced in December 2011) and previously taught at Mount Holyoke College.
In January, 2007, Leithauser joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.