About the Author
Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Heartmoor (forthcoming, Alice James Books), Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Michael Waters) of Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems (Knopf, 2025) and Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020). In 2023, the Ecuadorian press El Ángel published a collection of her poems in Spanish (Algunos poemas fugitivos) in the translation of Frances Simán. She has published scholarship in the field of Romani Studies, on issues of representation, appropriation, exophony and code-switching, and on the works of Kimiko Hahn, Agha Shahid Ali, and Colum McCann. She is the Translation Editor for Plume.
Moscaliuc is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart prizes ('24, '25), two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She has received residency fellowships from Hawthornden Foundation (Italy), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, Rockvale Writers' Colony, and Château de Lavigny (Switzerland), Dairy Hollow.
She is graduate program director and professor of English at Monmouth University (New Jersey) and a former poetry & translation faculty in the low-residency M.F.A. program at Drew University (New Jersey).
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Monmouth University Faculty Profile
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