Janet Koplos was a staff editor at Art in America magazine for eighteen years. She is a co-author of Makers: A History of American Studio Craft (2010, with Bruce Metcalf) and sole author of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture (1990) and What Makes A Potter: Functional Pottery in America Today (2019). Her most recent title is Contemporary Basketry: New Directions from Innovative Artists Worldwide (2025, with Carol Eckert). She is an honorary fellow of the American Craft Council and, in 2022, was named Distinguished Educator by the James Renwick Alliance in Washington, D.C. She lives in New York City.