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Moira Egan is the author of ten poetry collections, most recently, The Furies (LSU Press, 2025) and Amore e morte, a bilingual New & Selected Poems (Edizioni Tlon, Rome, 2022). Her poems and essays have been published on four continents, in journals such as Poetry, The Hopkins Review, The Yale Review, The Southwest Review, American Letters & Commentary, Nuovi Argomenti, and Poesia, and in anthologies including Best American Poetry; The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics; and Best Spiritual Literature. In 2023, she won the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets for her translations of the poetry of Giorgiomaria Cornelio. She has had poetry fellowships at Civitella Ranieri, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the James Merrill House. Travelling fellowships have taken her to Malta, Honduras, and Selianitika, Greece. She lives in Rome with Damiano Abeni, her partner in life as well as
