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Name: |
Anna Moschovakis |
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Destination: |
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
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Dates of Fellowship: |
October 15 - November 10, 2009 |
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Siri Hustvedt novelist, essayist, poet in Brooklyn, New York |
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Anna Moschovakis is a poet, translator, and editor. Her first book, I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone, was published in 2006 and she had a second book published in 2010. Recent translations include The Engagement by Georges Simenon and The Possession by Annie Ernaux. She is currently at work on a hybrid text that investigates sites of "failed" social experiments and on a film-poem about paradise. She teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and at the Bard MFA program and is a longtime member of the Brooklyn-based publishing collective, Ugly Duckling Presse. In 2009 year she was awarded a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts. |
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