anthologist

American  

[an-thah-luhj-ist] / ænˈθɑ lədʒ ɪst /

noun

plural

anthologists

1. a person who compiles or edits an anthology.

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Example Sentences

In her preface to “Inhabit the Poem,” she writes that the “popular belief that ‘gatekeepers’—publishers, university lecturers, anthologists, and advertisers—create the longevity of the authors we call ‘canonical’ is false.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I would prefer it if the textbook compilers and the anthologists would assume that I had written a few other poems.”

From New York Times

Hopkins, a prolific anthologist who died last year, pulls together the story of a construction site through simple poems about its workers: the backhoe operator, the dump truck drivers, the glaziers and electricians.

From New York Times

The anthologist’s occupational hazard is to be faulted because of some writers included and others excluded, so:

From New York Times

Mr. Hopkins was widely considered an eminence of children’s poetry, a genre that he cultivated for decades as a teacher, writer and anthologist.

From Washington Post