Lloyd Schwartz is an American poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at The University of Massachusetts Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air.

Lloyd Schwartz was born on November 29, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1962 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976. Schwartz's most recent book of poetry is Cairo Traffic (University of Chicago Press, 2000), which was preceded by Goodnight, Gracie (1992) and These People (1981). Schwartz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1994.

Most recently, Schwartz served as co-editor of the collected works of Elizabeth Bishop for the Library of America, entitle Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art.