Anna Moschovakis

Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts

Academic Program Affiliation(s): MFA Writing

Biography: Writing. Anna Moschovakis is the author of two books of poems, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (2011) and I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone (2006). She has translated works by Henri Michaux, Claude Cahun, Georges Simenon, Theophile Gauthier, Pierre Alféri, Blaise Cendrars, and Annie Ernaux, among others, and her translation of Albert Cossery's The Jokers (2010) was shortlisted for both the Best Translated Book Award and the French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation translation prize this year. She was a NYFA Poetry Fellow in 2009 and an apexart outbound fellow to Ethiopia, also in 2009. Recent poems and reviews have been published in A Public Space, American Book Review, Fence, and elsewhere. After teaching Comparative Literature at Queens College for four years she currently teaches Creative Writing and Publishing at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn while working as a freelance book editor and designer. Since 2002 she has been an active member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, for which she edits, designs, and helps to promote books of poetry and translation and directs the Dossier series of investigative texts. She lives in Delaware County and in Brooklyn, NY.
Phone: 845-758-7481
Department: Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts