Mihaela Moscaliuc

Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. She is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010); translator of Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015) and Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, forthcoming); and editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016). She has also published articles and essays on Romani (Gypsy) culture, exophony and code-switching, and on the works of Kimiko Hahn and Agha Shahid Ali. The recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, a residency fellowship from Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland), an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania, Moscaliuc is associate professor of English at Monmouth University and faculty in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry and Poetry in Translation.