Mihaela Moscaliuc

Mihaela Moscaliuc was born and raised in Romania. An exophonic writer—that is, someone who does creative writing in a language other than their mother tongue—she is the author of the poetry collections Heartmoor (Alice James Books, 2026); Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021); Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015); and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010).

The translation editor for Plume, Moscaliuc translated Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014). She is the coeditor, with Michael Waters, of Fruits of the Earth: Harvest Poems (Everyman’s Library, 2025) and Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020), and editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016).

Moscaliuc is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, the Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Fulbright Program. Her work has been awarded two Pushcart Prizes, two Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Awards and two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Moscaliuc is a graduate program director and professor of English at Monmouth University and also taught in Drew University’s low-residency MFA program in poetry and poetry in translation. She lives in Ocean, New Jersey.