Laura Moriarty (poet and novelist)

Laura Moriarty (born April 8, 1952) is an American poet and novelist.

Not to be confused with Laura Moriarty (novelist).
Laura Moriarty
Born (1952-04-08) April 8, 1952
St. Paul, Minnesota
OccupationPoet, novelist

Life and work

Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, grew up on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and has lived in Northern California since 1966. She attended Sacramento State University and the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s. She was married to the poet Jerry Estrin until his death in 1993, and is currently married to the poet/librarian Nick Robinson.

Moriarty was the Archives Director for the Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University from 1986-1997.[1] She received a Poetry Center Book Award in 1984 for Persia. She has also been awarded a Gerbode Foundation grant, a residency at the Foundation Royaumont in France, a New Langton Arts Award in Literature and a grant from the Fund for Poetry.[2] Moriarty has taught at Mills College, and Naropa University, among other places, and served as deputy director of Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, California, until her retirement.

References
  1. "non1:Bios and Links". Archived from the original on July 12, 2002. Retrieved 2017-05-12.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Kelsey St. Press: Moriarty page". Archived from the original on April 30, 2001. Retrieved 2017-05-12.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

List of publications
  • Two Cross Seizings. Sombre Reptiles, 1980.
  • Persia. Chance Additions, 1983.
  • Duse. Coincidence Press, 1987. (reprint: Paradigm Press, 2000)
  • like roads. Kelsey St. Press, 1990. ISBN 0-932716-24-5
  • Rondeaux. Roof Books, 1990.
  • L'archiviste. Zasterle Press, 1991.
  • Symmetry. Avec Books, 1996.
  • Spicer's City. Poetry New York, 1998.
  • The Case. O Books, 1998.
  • Cunning, a short novel. Spuyten Duyvil, 1999.
  • Nude Memoir. Krupskaya, 2000.
  • Self-Destruction. Post-Apollo Press, 2004.
  • Ultravioleta, a novel. Atelos, 2006.
  • A Semblance: Selected and New Poems, 1975 - 2007. Omnidawn Publishing, 2007.
  • An Air Force. Hooke Press, 2007.
  • A Tonalist. Nightboat, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9822645-6-0
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