Anna Moschovakis

anna moschovakis’s most recent book is An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (Soft Skull, 2024). Other books include the novels Participation (2022) and Eleanor, or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love (2018) and poetry books They and We Will Get Into Trouble for This (2016) and You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (2011), which won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Her most recent translation is of David Diop’s novel At Night All Blood Is Black (Frère d’âme), for which she and Diop received the International Booker Prize. She has also translated Albert Cossery’s The Jokers, Annie Ernaux’s The Possession, Bresson on Bresson, and (with Christine Schwartz-Harley) Marcelle Sauvageot’s Commentary. She is a student of plants and herbalism, a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, and a co-founder of Bushel Collective, an experimental mixed-use storefront space in Delhi, NY. Her collaborative co-translation of Mihret Kebede’s #evolutionarypoems will be published in November 2025 by Circumference Books.

B.A. Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley; M.A. Comparative Literature, The Graduate Center, CUNY; M.F.A. Writing, Bard College’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts.