Anna Moschovakis

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

Early life Moschovakis was born to an American mother and a Greek father. She has one brother.

Career Moschovakis is a founding member of Bushel Collective and the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse. She is a faculty member of Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, as well as an adjunct associate professor in the Writing MFA program at Pratt Institute. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Believer and The Iowa Review.

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

Moschovakis translated David Diop's 2018 novel At Night All Blood Is Black from French into English. The author and Moschovakis were awarded the 2021 International Booker Prize.

Personal life Moschovakis lives in South Kortright, New York. New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship (2009) Howard Fellowship from Brown University's Howard Foundation (2015) Los Angeles Times Fiction Book Prize (2020) International Booker Prize (Translation) (2021)