Annabelle Moseley at the Walt Whitman Birthplace
Annabelle Moseley is the author of one full-length collection and six chapbooks of poetry, a young adult novel, and a collection of children’s poetry. Her full-length collection: The Clock of the Long Now, was published in January 2012 by David Robert Books. Her most recent chapbooks are A Field Guide to the Muses (Finishing Line Press, 2009), and The Divine Tour (forthcoming 2012, Finishing Line Press). The first Walt Whitman Birthplace Writer-in-Residence, 2009-2010, Moseley is also founder and editor of String Poet, an online literary journal of poetry and the arts, and the host of The New York Times-featured String Poet Studio Series at the Long Island Violin Shop. She is founder of the national String Poet Prize. She is also a Lecturer at St. Joseph’s College. Moseley has published hundreds of poems internationally in such journals as The Texas Review, The Seventh Quarry (Wales), Marsh Hawk Review, and Mezzo Cammin, among others. Her first three chapbooks of poetry, published from 2005 to 2008 include: The Moon is a Lemon (Birnham Wood), Artifacts of Sound (Street Press), and Still Life (Street Press). Annabelle Moseley’s fourth chapbook is First and Last Things, a shared collection with the Welsh poet J. C. Evans, published jointly in New York and Wales by Cross-Cultural Communications. Moseley won first place in the 2008 Writer’s Digest Poetry Contest and a 2008 Amy Award from Poets & Writers.
Annabelle Moseley was born on the North Shore of Long Island, where she still resides. The beauty of Whitman’s Paumanok has influenced her writing, and much of her work is inspired by nature and human relationships. Among the themes of her writing is the tension between beauty and loss. She became an internationally published poet while still an undergraduate at Fairfield University in Connecticut. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in English and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Upon leaving Fairfield University she took with her all three of the available prizes in poetry. The next year she received a first place Poetry Center Prize in Poetry from the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. She holds an MFA in Poetry and an MA in Religious Studies, with a concentration and thesis on the medieval pilgrimage. She served for three years (2005-2008) as Poet-in-Residence at The Stevenson Academy of Fine Arts in Oyster Bay, New York.
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