Prof. Moscaliuc Presents Work at Poetry Gala in Mexico

Mihaela Moscaliuc, Ph.D., professor of English and graduate program director at Monmouth University, recently participated in the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL) 2026 Poetry Gala as part of the UANLeer University Book Fair held in Monterrey, Mexico. The event featured live poetry readings and was attended by over 500 members of the university and local community.

Several authors shared their work and spoke with the audience as part of the seminar, "Six Voices the Fray Servando Teresa de Mier Auditorium." As a featured reader, Moscaliuc read her poems "Deep Cut: Overcoat," "Tempering," and "Deep Cut: Bath," and gave a talk on exophony in poetry.

Former Monmouth University English professor Michael Waters, Ph.D., was also a featured speaker at this event, sharing his poems "Poinciana," "Payer with Caravaggio," and "Brooklyn Walk-Up," translated by Frances Simán.

A collection comprising poems by Moscaliuc and Waters in the Spanish translation of Simán was published by the UANL in the prestigious series "El Oro de los Tigres." The collection is titled "4625 Millas," which is the distance between the two poets' birth places-Suceava, Romania, and New York City.

Moscaliuc 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).