Carol Moldaw

Carol Moldaw was born in Oakland, California. She received a BA from Harvard University in 1978 and an MA from Boston University in 1986.

Moldaw is the author of Go Figure (Four Way Books, 2024); Beauty Refracted (Four Way Books, 2018); So Late, So Soon: New and Collected Poems (Etruscan Press, 2010); The Lightning Field (Oberlin College Press, 2003); and Taken From the River (Alef Books, 1993). She is also the author of the novel The Widening (Etruscan Press, 2008).

Of her poetry, Jane Hirshfield writes, “Here are poems of intelligent consideration and a deft and heart-born music, filled with the gleam of particularity and a lushness of language and substance.”

Moldaw has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Lannan Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught at Naropa University, the College of Santa Fe, and the University of Southern Maine, among other institutions. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.