Mary Jo Bang (born October 22, 1946, in Waynesville, Missouri) is an American poet.

She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's and Master's in sociology, from the Polytechnic of Central London with a Bachelor's in Photography, and from Columbia University, with an M.F.A.

Bang is currently a professor at Washington University in St.

[2] Her work has appeared in New American Writing, Paris Review, The New Yorker,[3] A Public Space, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Harvard Review.

Bang was the poetry co-editor of the Boston Review from 1995 to 2005.