PJ Krass — described by Publisher’s Weekly as a “top-notch writer” — is a poet, editor and writing teacher.

PJ’s poems have appeared in journals that include Rattle, New Verse News, Caesura and South Carolina Review. He’s the recipient of a Pushcart Prize special mention.

PJ is the poetry co-editor of an anthology, The Writers Studio at Thirty. He’s also the author of a poetry chapbook, My Sixties, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in mid-2022.

PJ’s poetry connections run deep. He was among the last students to study with Elizabeth Bishop at NYU. PJ studied briefly with the late, great Tony Hoagland. And he’s a former member of a master class run by Philip Schultz, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and founder/director of The Writers Studio, an independent writing school.

PJ has taught at The Writers Studio, both in New York and online, since 2007. His teaching colleagues include writers Lisa Bellamy, Leslie Dormen, Joel Hinman, Lucinda Holt and Cynthia Weiner.

Also through his affiliation with The Writers Studio, PJ has participated in Craft Classes led by many of the country’s best poets. They include: Kim Addonizio, Jill Bialosky, Tina Chang, Kwame Dawes, Carl Dennis, Cornelius Eady, Jonathan Galassi, Dana Goodyear, Edward Hirsch, Major Jackson, Lawrence Joseph, James Lasdun, Wesley McNair, Ron Padgett, Robert Pinsky, Jana Prikryl, Tom Sleigh, Grace Shulman, Patricia Smith, Gerald Stern, Yusef Komunyakaa and Matthew Zapruder.

In another lifetime, PJ (working as Peter Krass) was a business and technology journalist. He was a senior editor at Inc. magazine, senior writer and then features editor at InformationWeek magazine, and managing editor in BusinessWeek’s newsletter group. He now heads Petros Consulting, providing writing and editing services for a wide range of clients.