Moscaliuc Publishes Fourth Poetry Collection

Mihaela Moscaliuc, Ph.D., professor of English and graduate program director at Monmouth University, has published her fourth poetry collection, "Heartmoor," with Alice James Books.

Informed by Moscaliuc's coming of age during and immediately following Nicolae Ceaușescu's repressive regime in Romania, "Heartmoor" is a "lush, formally diverse collection that explores what moors and unmoors us psychologically, culturally, and spiritually," according to its listing. The work reflects on "in-betweenness, authoritarianism, cruelty, and complicity while still holding space for joy, wonder, and care."

Moscaliuc finished the collection in the first months of her Guggenheim Fellowship, then started new projects on which she continued working while in residence at Yaddo and MacDowell, the two leading retreats for artists and writers. She notes that her writing practice is informed by attentiveness to the minuscule and large ways the world invites connection and understanding, an attentiveness she hopes to cultivate through her teaching as well.

Moscaliuc is the author of three additional poetry collections, "Cemetery Ink" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), "Immigrant Model" (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and "Father Dirt" (Alice James Books, 2010). She is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship, two Pushcart prizes (for non-fiction and poetry), two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She has received residency fellowships from Hawthornden Foundation (Italy), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, Rockvale Writers' Colony, and Château de Lavigny (Switzerland).

Moscaliuc will be reading in the Visiting Writers Series on Nov. 2 at 6 p.m. in the Julian Abele room of the Great Hall.