Travis Mossotti

Author's Bio

Travis Mossotti has been an English Lecturer at the University of California Santa Cruz, McKendree University, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and he will continue teaching in St. Louis in the fall.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

About the Dead (Utah State University Press, 2011)

Journals:

American Literary Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Antioch Review, Cincinnati Review, Connecticut Review, Copper Nickel, Court Green, Cream City Review, Dark Horse, Fourth River, Greensboro Review, Harpur Palate, Hunger Mountain, Italian Americana, New Delta Review, New South, New York Quarterly, North American Review, Passages North, Poet Lore, Poetry Ireland Review, Quiddity, Rattle, RHINO, roger, Salt Hill Journal, Southeast Review, Southern Humanities Review, Subtropics, The Smoking Poet, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Washington Square

Prizes:

Winner: 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award Judged by Garrison Keillor (USU Press); Finalist: The Journal Award in Poetry; Finalist: the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry; Semi-finalist and Finalist: University of Wisconsin Press' Brittingham Prize in Poetry and the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry (2009); Finalist: National Poetry Series (2009); Honorable Mention: River Styx International Poetry Prize; Winner & Honorable Mention: Academy of American Poets Prize; Winner & Honorable Mention: Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest; Winner: James Hearst Poetry Prize; Finalist: Gulf Coast Poetry Prize; Finalist: Morton Marr Poetry Prize; Guest reader at Ball State in Muncie, IN; Guest reader at River Styx's Hungry Young Poets in St. Louis, MO; Guest reader at Rattle's summer release event in Los Angeles, CA; Guest reader at Writer’s on the Road, Columbia, MO; Guest Reader at Rivertown Reading Series, Paducah, KY

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Bangalore by Kerry James Evans

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Listing last updated: August 10, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English, French

Born in:

St. Louis, MO

Raised in:

St. Louis, MO

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