Life and work

Moriarty was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, grew up on Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Cape Cod, often referred to locally as simply the Cape, is a cape in the easternmost portion of the state of Massachusetts, in the Northeastern United States...

 in Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 and has lived in Northern California since 1966. She attended Sacramento State University and the University of California at Berkeley in the 70s. She was married to the poet Jerry Estrin

Jerry Estrin

Jerry Estrin was a U.S. poet and magazine editor born in Los Angeles, California. Estrin was founder and editor of the magazines "Vanishing Cab" and "Art and Con"....

 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

San Francisco State University

San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...

 from 1986-1997. 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

New Langton Arts

-About:New Langton Arts was a not-for-profit arts organization focusing on contemporary art founded in 1975 in San Francisco, California. Part of the first wave of alternative art spaces in the US, New Langton Arts was a leader in exhibiting new media forms in art, and involving artists in the...

 Award in Literature and a grant from the Fund for Poetry. Moriarty has taught at Mills College

Mills College

Mills College is an independent liberal arts women's college founded in 1852 that offers bachelor's degrees to women and graduate degrees and certificates to women and men. Located in Oakland, California, Mills was the first women's college west of the Rockies. The institution was initially founded...

, and Naropa University

Naropa University

Naropa University is a private American liberal arts university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher and Oxford University scholar Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the eleventh-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda.Naropa describes itself as...

, among other places, and is currently deputy director of Small Press Distribution

Small Press Distribution

Small Press Distribution, or SPD, is a non-profit literary arts organization located in Berkeley, California. As their name indicates, the core of their mission is to act as an umbrella distributor and marketer for hundreds of smaller literary publishers...

 in Berkeley, California.

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 978-0982264560

External links

• Laura Moriarty's A Tonalist Notes: Poetics Politics Prosody Poetry
• Bio of Laura Moriarty at the Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo
• Laura Moriarty at Rain Taxi Book Festival
• Publisher page for Laura Moriarty's A Semblance
• Review of Laura Moriarty's An Air Force and A Semblance at Ron Silliman's Blog
• Review of Laura Moriarty's A Semblance at Publishers Weekly
• Review of Laura Moriarty's novel Ultravioleta at Publishers Weekly
• Laura Moriarty: Video and Links At the Omnidawn Publisher's Blog
• A Tonalist Thinking essay
• (Dis)solution a poem from A Tonalist
• Review of Ode by Ilya Kutik Moriarty's reviews of Kutik's Ode (translated by Kit Robinson
  Kit Robinson
  Kit Robinson is an American poet and translator. An early member of the San Francisco Language poets circle, he has published 20 books of poetry.-Life and work:...
  
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