Anna Elizabeth Moschovakis is a Greek American poet, author, and translator.

Moschovakis was born to an American mother and a Greek father.^[1] She split her time growing up between the U.S. and Greece, where her father owned what she described as "a small apartment in a port-side suburb on the outskirts ofAthens".^[1] She has one brother.^[1] She received aBA in philosophy from theUniversity of California at Berkeley, anMFA from theMilton Avery Graduate School of the Arts atBard College, and anMA in comparative literature (French and American) from theCUNY Graduate Center.^[2][3]

Moschovakis is a founding member of Bushel Collective and the publishing collectiveUgly Duckling Presse.^[4] She is a faculty member ofBard College'sMilton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, as well as an adjunct associate professor in the Writing MFA program atPratt Institute.^[2] Her writing has appeared inThe Paris Review,The Believer andThe Iowa Review.^[5][6][7]

Moschovakis' book of poetry,You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake, won theJames Laughlin Award in 2011.^[8] Her first novel,Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love, was published in 2018 and was called "remarkable" by theLos Angeles Review of Books.^[9]

Moschovakis translatedDavid Diop's 2018 novelAt Night All Blood Is Black from French into English.^[10][11] The author and Moschovakis were awarded the 2021International Booker Prize.^[12]

Moschovakis lives inSouth Kortright, New York.^[2]

• I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone (2006)
• You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (2011)
• They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (2016)

• Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (2018)
• Participation (2022)

• The Engagement byGeorges Simenon (2007)
• The Possession byAnnie Ernaux (2008)
• The Jokers byAlbert Cossery (2010)
• Commentary by Marcelle Sauvageo (2013, withChristine Schwartz Hartley)
• Bresson on Bresson (2017)
• At Night All Blood Is Black byDavid Diop (2020)

• Edward F. Albee Foundation (2001)^[13]
• New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship (2009)^[14]
• Howard Fellowship from Brown University's Howard Foundation (2015)^[15]
• Los Angeles Times Fiction Book Prize (2020)^[16]
• International Booker Prize (Translation) (2021)^[17]

• Personal website

• Living people
• American translators
• Bard College faculty
• American women poets
• 21st-century American poets
• 21st-century American women writers
• American women academics
• American people of Greek descent

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